![]() I admire newsletter writers and bloggers who plan out and stockpile content far in advance, but this trip has taught me that I prefer the immediacy of my own process. I ended up writing the “How to Read a Book” post one rainy morning when we were camping at the Solid Sound music festival and stuck in our tents, but by the time I mailed it out, we had just landed back in San Francisco and the original drafting felt far away. My plan was to write both week 26 and week 27 ahead of my vacation, but the pneumonia derailed that plan. I wouldn’t have missed any of it – the maple creemees or the Pat’s cheesesteak or the Carolina barbecue kayaking on Lake Champlain at sunset listening to Jeff Tweedy sing “Noah’s Flood” in a sudden summer shower visiting with aunts, uncles, cousins, siblings, and mothers from three different families or traveling with five of my favorite humans in a giant white whale of an SUV – but it feels good to be back in my beloved San Francisco, which has been muffled in a deep, cool layer of soothing fog all week.Īnd it feels great to be back to my regular rhythm of writing these newsletters. The trip was glorious but almost too full of sights, sounds, sensations, and tastes. ![]() ![]() How did the writing go this week? I’m settled back in at the garret after a two-week road trip from Vermont to North Carolina. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Smith attended the local state schools, Malorees Junior School and Hampstead Comprehensive School, then King's College, Cambridge, where she studied English literature. Despite earlier ambitions, literature emerged as her principal interest. While at university, Smith earned money as a jazz singer, and wanted to become a journalist. As a child, Smith was fond of tap dancing, and in her teenage years, she considered a career in musical theatre. She has a half-sister, a half-brother, and two younger brothers (one is the rapper and stand-up comedian Doc Brown, and the other is the rapper Luc Skyz). Smith's parents divorced when she was a teenager. Smith's mother grew up in Jamaica and emigrated to England in 1969. At the age of 14, she changed her name from Sadie to Zadie. Sadie Smith was born on 25 October 1975 in Willesden to a Jamaican mother, Yvonne Bailey, and an English father, Harvey Smith, who was 30 years his wife's senior. She has been a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University since September 2010. Her debut novel, White Teeth (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. Zadie Smith FRSL (born Sadie 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Recorded September 2013 from the BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Rebels of Ireland opens with an Ireland transformed plantation, the final step in the centuries-long English conquest of Ireland, is the order of the day, and the subjugation of the native Irish Catholic population has begun in earnest.Įdward Rutherfurd brings history to life through the tales of families whose fates rise and fall in each generation: Brothers who must choose between fidelity to their ancient faith or the security of their families a wife whose passion for a charismatic Irish chieftain threatens her comfortable marriage to a prosperous merchant a young scholar whose secret rebel sympathies are put to the test men who risk their lives and their children’s fortunes in the tragic pursuit of freedom, and those determined to root them out forever. ![]() The Princes of Ireland, the first volume of Edward Rutherfurd’s magisterial epic of Irish history, ended with the disastrous Irish revolt of 1534 and the disappearance of the sacred Staff of Saint Patrick. The reigning master of grand historical fiction returns with the stirring conclusion to his bestselling Dublin Saga. ![]() ![]() Poems, New and Collected:. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The bite conveys the intensity of the woman's hyper-vigilance, but it also adds physical action, and it gives the world of the poem some depth/dimension, which is all hard to convey purely through dialogue. Buy Poems, New and Collected Main by Szymborska, Wislawa (ISBN: 9780571196685) from Amazon's Book Store. It seems like a little thing, but I don't think the poem would work as well if the woman didn't bite the soldier's finger in the middle of the conversation.Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. ![]() However, since time is meaningless, as people seem to love to point out these days, I am now declaring that every day is Mother's Day, and that I am posting this poem on Mother's Day. Poems New and Collected - Ebook written by Wislawa Szymborska. I am now realizing I should have posted this succinct expression of the power of maternal love last Monday, the weekend after Mother's Day.All she knows is that she has her children. ![]() She doesn't know what her name is, who these idiot men are, how long she's been taking shelter in a burrow, or which side of the war she's on. Her sense of self has collapsed along with her society. The shocks of war have thrown her into survival mode. |