The word is their bond

From the Boston Globe a book group with a difference. Read From a rare friendship, a book club for the homeless is born and watch the video.

It’s five people in a book group, not 5,000 people fed, but it’s five people I can pull aside and talk to,” Tibbetts said

Annie Dillard “says the right thing, always” *

Again posted by the thoughtful, wide ranging Culturemaking a blog that touches on a little of  ’everything’ (Dillard’s writing is a longtime…alright, obessession…of mine):

“There was no one here but us fanatics: bird-watchers, infielders, detectives, poets, rock collectors, and, I inferred, specialists in things I had not looked into—violin makers, fisherman, Islamic scholars, opera composers, people who studied Bali, vials of air, bats. It seemed to take all these people working full time to extract the interest from everything and articulate it for the rest of us”. —Annie Dillard, An American Childhood

* From A Child’s Christmas in Wales by Dyan Thomas

Ian McEwan wants to “incite a naked hunger in readers.”

Taking a moment to scan a New Yorker article by Daniel Zalewski on McEwan’s ‘art of unease’ – and find that he is sure that without women readers, the novel would be dead — after a not all together successful attempt to give books away in a park…