The cosmic realism of Annie Dillard
Marilynne Robinson admires Annie Dillard’s The Maytrees, a book “about wonder.” Elsewhere Dillard suggests she’s done with writing. (Via.)
Marilynne Robinson admires Annie Dillard’s The Maytrees, a book “about wonder.” Elsewhere Dillard suggests she’s done with writing. (Via.)
J.M. Coetzee, José Prieto, and many other writers will participate in a worldwide reading to protest the regime of Robert Mugabe. (Via.)
A reader named Sebastian tells me this spiked tire/hook apparatus “is for tilling the ground in preparation for planting. You break up the soil and left over stalks of last year’s crops to prepare the ground for this year’s seeds.” I took the photo near Shellmound, a plantation best known from its fictional representation in Eudora Welty’s first novel, Delta . . .
Edward P. Jones initially declined the invitation to edit the forthcoming New Stories From the South 2007, but accepted upon remembering how heartened he’d been by the inclusion of one of his own stories in a prior year. I read his introduction shortly before heading down South and have been thinking about it on my travels. Here’s an excerpt: Hither . . .