…the house I live in…

A journal of life pursued

John Updike

April 2, 2012

“Inspiration is for amateurs…”

I am fascinated by lives slouching toward the creative. Continue reading

Creativity, Writers, Writing

art, biography, Chuck Close, John Updike, memior, Nietzsche, Writing
June 29, 2010

First sentences…

…his own death, shaped vaguely like an airplane. Continue reading

Books, Literature, Reading, Thinkers, Writers

Annie Dillard, Bernard Malamud, David Foster Wallace, E.B. White, First Sentences, Gabriel García Márquez, Guy Davenport, Henry David Thoreau, James Joyce, Joan Didion, John Updike, José Saramago, Paul Bowles
February 7, 2009

The Americans

Everything interesting has an element of pain associated with it, it seems. Continue reading

Writers, Writing

John Updike, Robert Frank, The Americans, The National Gallery of Art

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