…the house I live in…

A journal of life pursued

Writers

June 16, 2012

“Only an animal does useful things.”

“Only an animal does useful things.” Continue reading

Adventure, Books, The Examined Life, Writers

Adventure, Alone, Gérard d’Aboville, Paul Theroux
June 8, 2012

“Sometimes, like right now…”

If I pay a high degree of attention… Continue reading

Life, The Examined Life, Writers

depression, Hemingway, Samuel Johnson, the black dog, Writing
June 4, 2012

On writing

I know all this to be true. Continue reading

Creativity, Reading, Writers, Writing

blogging, Jim Harrison, Writing
May 24, 2012

Too much pizza. Too much beer.

Thinks begin to turn ugly. Continue reading

Books, Memoir, Writers, Writing

J.D. Salinger, Joyce Maynard, Memoir, Writing
May 16, 2012

“…to measure their experience…”

I can’t even discern what a true inner life is. Continue reading

Creativity, Life, Literature, The Examined Life, The infinity of ideas, Writers

Clarity, Magellan, Norman Mailer, The Paris Review, Writing
May 2, 2012

Bookends

Miscellany end-of-week links on books and reading. Continue reading

Books, Creativity, Literature, Memoir, Writers, Writing

Joan Didion, Moby Dick, Montaigne, Nathaniel Hawthron, Settled in the Wild, Susan Hand Shetterly, The Library of America, The Nervous Breakdown, The Paris Review, Writing

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