I suggested to a friend that she read The Overstory, by Richard Powers. Months later, she finished the first story/chapter and made the mistake of telling me. Poor soul, she then had to listen to me expound at length — accompanied by ferociously animated hand gestures — on Powers’s ingenious use of […]
Soup: Food as Metaphor, How We Keep One Another Alive
I was supine on the couch, as I have been for a couple of weeks now, recovering from my very near brush with the Void. I’ve given myself, with my doctor’s blessing, permission to be in a state of “rest” — that retro condition — without guilt, for a while […]