Writing Is A Performance, Like Singing An

The First And Perhaps The Most Important Requirement For A Successful Writing Performance - And Writing Is A Performance, Like Singing An Aria Or Dancing A Jig - Is To Understand The Nature Of The Occasion.

But If Shakespeare Himself Is Maybe About Meaning And Truth, I Don't Know, Then He Is Certainly About Pleasure And Interest, We Start With Pleasure And Interest, But Maybe Eventually It Gets To Meaning And Truth.

Compared To The Unleashed Forces Of Warfare And Of Faith, Mount Vesuvius Was Kinder To The Legacy Of Antiquity.

Through Reading Literature We Can Make Ghosts Speak To Us, And We Can Speak Back To Them.

A Couple Of Years Ago I Picked Up New Yorker Writer Alma Guillermoprieto's "the Heart That Bleeds," Which Is Reportage From Latin America In The 1990s. You Can Predict That Some Books Will Give You A Thrill, But You Can't Predict The Books That Will Hit You Hard. It Is A Little Bit Like Falling In Love.