A smattering of links I’ve bookmarked because they were interesting, entertaining, or otherwise worth a read. This song just popped up on my Pandora station and I love it! Falling Slowly Absolutely horrifying and appalling – Rape victims say military labels them ‘crazy’. I’m doing a Bible study on Scouting the Divine, and I…
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Festival of Faith and Writing, the Final Day
On Essays – Patrick Madden Essays are the study of the everyday, but transcendent and transformative. “I have no more made my book than my book has made me.” – Montaigne The written ‘I’ and the writer ‘I’. The character ‘I’ is not the writer ‘I’. Essay conveys the quality of the author’s mind. Your…
Notes From A Conference, Day 2
Interview with Jonathan Safren Foer How writing and life works – the concerns that tumble around in your head are like clothes in a dryer. At some point they are ready to take out. These concerns are central to who we are. His books move towards fragmentation – why? Hip-hop has layers, like collage. We…
Notes From A Conference
This past weekend, I went to my first writing conference, the Festival of Faith and Writing. It was amazing. I loved eavesdropping on conversations that were about books and authors and writing. To listen to people enthuse about books and words was very soul-satisfying. Here are most of my notes from day 1, from some…