Zadie Smith on Writing, Reviewing, and Cultivating the Banal.
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Annie Dillard, Painter
Art is like an ill-trained Labrador Retriever that drags you out into traffic. ~ Annie Dillard
It would seem that Annie Dillard may have put down her pen for the paint brush; or extended her brush strokes from simply in between books to the daily discipline that she once devoted to her writing. The art blog Writing Without Paper brought this to my attention along with links to Dillard’s work and to a sort of explanation for considering The Maytrees to be her last.Which I don’t believe for one moment. Well, we’ll see. Because, sometimes, Labrador Retrievers drag you out into…you get the picture.
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…
