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When Enough Is Enough: Age and the Creative Impulse
What about writers who come suddenly into full power late in life?
When Enough Is Enough: Age and the Creative Impulse
What about writers who come suddenly into full power late in life?
Why I Have Decided to Live
Because I can love every small thing.
Wife 22
Best-selling author Melanie Gideon reads from her novel Wife 22.
Wife 22
The light is like a benediction. My husband reaches for my hand.
Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady at One Hundred
This is a novel that contains more than its actuarial share of falls.
Writer’s Cottage
Something is wrong with that place. Someone’s still there . . .
Writing
Literary gatherings are a nightmare because writers have no shop talk.
Writing in October
The slow-falling leaves contain the space of the story I’m pursuing.
Yeats on Wilde
“The basis of literary friendship is mixing the poisoned bowl.”
Yet and Other Poems
No more laughing like the waves. No more ocean of words to drink from.