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On Not Thinking Like a Writer, and Other News
By
Sadie Stein
November 26, 2013
On the Shelf
“The artist must avoid thinking like a writer.”
The letters of Cézanne
.
“It isn’t only about droll or absurd situations, it’s about the language used to describe those situations.”
Paul Auster on Samuel Beckett
.
In honor of Umberto Eco’s
Legendary Lands
,
maps of imaginary lands
.
“Last December, on a Sunday like so many Boston Sundays, one that began in sunshine but gave way to snow showers, three hundred members of Old South Church gathered for a congregational meeting. After hours of debate following weeks of discussion, they voted to sell one of their two copies of the Bay Psalm Book.” Casey N. Cep on
America’s first book
.
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