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Monthly letter #7: Dreams are made on
Reflections on reading, writing, and ideas from Making Sentences in October.
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Sir Patrick Stewart (1940-2026)
I’ve been thinking (dreaming...
Public gratitude #15: The Housekeeper • Rose Tremain
Whenever I finish a book (by a writer living or dead), I write a thank you note to its author. This month, I’m grateful to Rose Tremain for her new novel The Housekeeper, which transforms one of the idols of the literary world.
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By heart #15: A Dream Within A Dream • Edgar Allan Poe
Learn a poem by heart and it stays with you forever. This month, I recite Edgar Allan Poe’s A Dream Within A Dream, which reminds dreamers: all we can perceive is the moment we call the present.
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Essay #20: A novel for now
Close by the library stands the pub. If I’m going to write about Hemingway, then I best begin there.
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My reason is easily explained. Drinking is as natural and as necessary as eat...
Monthly letter #6: Thinking of home
Reflections on reading, writing, and ideas from Making Sentences in September.
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Yesterday. Twenty-fifth of September. William Faulkner’s birthday. In A...
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