Nothing but a Man: Ed Bradley, 1941 – 2006

The list in particular spotlights the rise of CATL

and I felt fortunate to have such a smart and fun traveling companion to help me navigate back into public space as a writer.There are some women who just to look at them makes you think they smell like cigarettes and heavy secret smells and would get eye makeup all over your pillow.

and much of his work makes the effort to communicate something of what he has learned about how to pay attention to the world.a movement that seeks to unharness theater from drama and all the imperatives that the dramatic form enshrines.And they may be! But what is wrong with slight? How are we asking books to be when we dismiss them for being slight.

since writing it facilitated a shift in how she brought together external influence and direct personal experience.and if my somewhat vague notion of being really general resonates with you in any way—what might this apparently slight and anonymous mode of being in the world consist of? Why does it occasionally feel so good?A quick follow-up to yesterdays missive.

I love that idea of being in thrall to another writer—it seems more exhilarating and entwining than the rather more contrived and oft recommended exercise of merely imitating an authors writing style.

and Im curious about what you mean by the narrator having this functional sense of her own difference.at a time when there seemed to be no room in the mainstream literary culture for that Sontagian seriousness.

The idea that they might be collected in a volume and published did not occur to Elkin at the time of writing; the purpose of her project then was a personal one.These writers are really gifted in being able to create a sense of presence in their work—which is something I find really exciting.

yet—and this is something that Peter Brook writes about so well—much of what goes into a theatrical space has already been worked out.I know Sontags writing had a big impact on you when you were starting out as a writer—can you recall the nature of that impact and how you sought to attest to it? What value do you think there is in admiring another writer to the extent that one is in thrall to them?LAUREN ELKINI love the Canetti essay—thats one that really means a lot to me.