Maytrees, The
 Once more and ever: It was long ago that I bought the book, on a long, lone roadtrip southwest, in a favorite bookstore alongside the Rockies. I held it, carried it, kept it on my coffeetable, my nightstand, prolonging the sweet anticipation, knowing the [... more]
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Living by Fiction
Art Is Interpretation: "Living By Fiction" is in essence a treatise by Annie Dillard that attempts to interpret art, and thereby includes fiction as art, and as an interpretation. The book is well constructed and the sentences are beautifully [... more]
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Living, The
Amazon.com Review: Listening to Lawrence Luckinbill read Annie Dillard's historical novel The Living takes a little getting used to. The very first sentence reveals a pronounced and distracting lisp, but don't let that dissuade you from continuing. [... more]
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Annie Dillard Reader, An
Indispensable: You have read all of Annie's books. Some more than once. Still, this is a good book for you. It's a little heavy but worth putting in your briefcase and lugging around. Who ever said that beauty comes without effort? So you have the book [... more]
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Writing Life, The
Amazon.com Review: Annie Dillard has spent a lot of time in remote, bare-bones shelters doing something she claims to hate: writing. Slender though it is, The Writing Life richly conveys the torturous, tortuous, and in rare moments, transcendent [... more]
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Holy the Firm
Spilling the Beans: While attending Western Washington University I had the great good fortune to take a poetry class from Annie Dillard. My own poetry was abysmal and she gave me this advice, "writing is like prayer; you sit and listen for the [... more]
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
pilgrim at tinker creek: I found this book boring...I KNOW it was a Pulitzer prize winner. But, to me, oh, so boring... Annie Dillard is an excellent writer of course, and I loved her little book, The Writing Life. Utterly pointless: I found this book [... more]
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American Childhood, An
Amazon.com Review: Annie Dillard remembers. She remembers the exhilaration of whipping a snowball at a car and having it hit straight on. She remembers playing with the skin on her mother's knuckles, which "didn't snap back; it lay dead across her [... more]
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Teaching a Stone to Talk
Everyone knows that stones can't talk...: Poetry is poetry and prose is prose. In my opinion, the extent to which they are mixed is the extent to which the quality of each, with some exceptions, deteriorates. The problem I have with Dillard's writing is [... more]
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Modern American Memoirs
The Art of the Personal: This wonderful collection of autobiographical pieces is extraordinary in the variety of lives that are represented. I cover my eyes from Wallace Stegner's Saskatchewan dust and then I open them to witness the East River sunset [... more]
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