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Jane Austen decoded for men

Waynesville Smoky Mountain News - Jan 18, 2012
Many of these male students can relate to the work of Annie Dillard or Anne Tyler, and more than a few over the years have taken to Bronte's Wuthering Heights, if only because of Heathcliff and the author's magnificently wild prose, but none of these ...

The Writing Life: The point of the long and winding sentence

Los Angeles Times - Jan 5, 2012
No writer can compete, for speed and urgency, with texts or CNN news flashes or RSS feeds, but any writer can try to give us the depth, the nuances — the "gaps," as Annie Dillard calls them — that don't show up on many screens.

The Morning After Mourning

New York Times - Jan 6, 2012
Observing its teeming ecology, he thinks of Emerson at his most transcendental, and of Annie Dillard's Tinker Creek: “She saw nature as a marketplace, alive with coming and going,” he writes. Noting that kayaking is like writing, “requiring the same ...

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The Writing Life

by: Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard has written eleven books, including the memoir of her parents, An American Childhood; the Northwest pioneer epic The Living; and the nonfiction narrative Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. A gregarious recluse, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Holy the Firm

by: Annie Dillard

In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth consumed in a candle flame, about a seven-year-old girl burned in an airplane accident, about a baptism on a cold beach. But behind the moving curtain of what she calls "the hard things -- rock mountain and salt sea," she sees, sometimes far off and sometimes as close by as a veil or air, the power play of holy fire.
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Modern American Memoirs

In Modern American Memoirs, two very discerning writers and readers have selected samples from 35 of the finest memoirs written in this century, including contributions by such diverse writers as Margaret Mead, Malcolm X, Maxine Hong Kingston, Loren Eisely, and Zora Neale Hurston. Chosen for their value as excellent examples of the art of biography as well as for their superb writing, the excerpts present a broad range of American life, and offer vivid insight into the real-life events that shaped their authors.
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