Feedback, August 2007
…I also mentioned to you something about accessibility: I said that when I read your more final version of The Book of Mev, I was surprised by how accessible the voice was. Yes, it did…
Category: Correspondence
Valentine Card, 1993
Dearest partner, travel mate, sister quester, blessed one, sage-in-the-making, charmer, visionary, soul-sharer, teacher, palsy-walsy chum, chef extraordinaire, Florence Nightingale, Penny Lernoux, four years old, perennial 20 year old, tough as nails, soft as silk, cherished…
From the Archives: Hello from Camden!
Hey Dr. Chmiel! Hope the new school year is treating you well! I thought of you the other day because I was perusing my bookcase (which, by the way, I’m doing JVC in Camden, NJ…
Forty Years of Letters
Bill Morgan, I Greet You at the Beginning of a Great Career: The Selected Correspondence of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg —1955-1997 I read a lot of Ferlinghetti in the 1980s, and loads of Ginsberg…
A Disciple and His Guru
Dear Max, I never read Christopher Isherwood until this summer. What drew me to him was not his fictional output but his spiritual journey. My Guru and His Disciple is his engaging memoir of several…
Sharing a Common Suffering
–Brandon Sampson recently finished his Master’s at the University of Chicago.
Epistolary Ecstasy (Love Letters, Notes of Gratitude, Postcards with Brio): An Autumn Writing Class
“Dear God, I am fourteen years old. I am I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.” Alice Walker, The Color…
Thank You, Dear Layla Writing Class, Spring 2016
Dear Friends Thank you for coming to Tower Grove Place Thank you for listening week after week Thank you for becoming acquainted with each other Thank you for meeting up with me, like at Kaldi’s…
Accept Loss Forever: Ono No Komachi & Izumi Shikibu
I am glad to have read The Ink Dark Moon, Jane Hirshfeld’s translations, with the aid of Mariko Aratani, of the Heian Court’s poets—Izumi Shikibu and Ono No Komachi. Several of Kerouac’s writing maxims came to…