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Comment on The Moon, Come to Earth by The Wednesday Web Browser | ErikaDreifus.com

The Wednesday Web Browser | ErikaDreifus.com — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:44:07 +0000

[...] Urbana-Champaign. The main topic of discussion: Graham’s soon-to-be-released nonfiction book, The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon, which is inspired by a recent sabbatical year. Lots of interesting material here, about Portugal, [...]

Comment on Any Novel’s Negative Twenty Questions by Quotation of the Week: Donald Barthelme (via Philip Graham) | ErikaDreifus.com

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:42:44 +0000

[...] Source: Philip Graham, “Any Novel’s Negative Twenty Questions” [...]

Comment on I No Longer Saw Faces by The Wednesday Web Browser | ErikaDreifus.com

The Wednesday Web Browser | ErikaDreifus.com — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:41:01 +0000

[...] 50th Birthday to To Kill A Mockingbird.==========Philip Graham writes about French memoirist Jacques Lusseyran and the power of the spoken voice.==========Linda [...]

Comment on You Got to Take Care of Your People by The Wednesday Web Browser | ErikaDreifus.com

The Wednesday Web Browser | ErikaDreifus.com — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:40:13 +0000

[...] Philip Graham shares writing lessons learned from his cab-driving days.==========Over on my other blog, My Machberet (“machberet” is the Hebrew word for “notebook”), Barbara Krasner provides a generous guest post/conference dispatch re: writing Jewish-themed children’s books.==========Here’s a peek into the archives of John Updike (made me nostalgic for doing research in Houghton Library).==========According to the editor whom Lisa Romeo cites, I must be an “old writer,” indeed. What about you? [...]

Comment on Two Way Street by Just for Emphasis | ErikaDreifus.com

Just for Emphasis | ErikaDreifus.com — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:39:54 +0000

[...] them.” I was marveling over that wisdom once again when I discovered Philip Graham’s new post offering some equally memorable [...]

Comment on All Writing is Travel Writing by tours n travels

tours n travels — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:34:19 +0000

I really agree with you that Travel is not simply a geographical exercise but a journey into the land of adolescence……!!
i am very much impressed at your writing..

Comment on The Companionable Presence of a Book by admin

admin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:09:39 +0000

Lovely, Lisa–virtual and actual landscapes, giving you a stereoscopic memory of travel . . .

Comment on The Companionable Presence of a Book by lisa peet

lisa peet — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 15:12:44 +0000

I somehow ended up reading Gao Xingjian’s Soul Mountain on a trip to western Ireland a few years ago. And while I didn’t ultimately end up loving the book as a whole, the descriptions of the Chinese landscape segued perfectly. Reading these intensely evocative passages about the Chinese river gorges and mountains while sitting on the misty oceanside cliffs of Cork and Kerry counties threw where I was into sharper relief, and enhanced the whole physical experience in a way I still can’t quite pin down.

Comment on The Companionable Presence of a Book by admin

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:20:40 +0000

Thanks, Levi, I love that story. Reading is never simple, is it? Any book offers different versions of itself, depending on where someone reads it.

Comment on The Companionable Presence of a Book by Levi Stahl

Levi Stahl — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:58:24 +0000

This isn't as interesting or excusable as reading while malarial, but I once read about 75 pages of Crime and Punlishment while drunk. I was making my my way home--waiting on the Tube, riding the Tube--from a leaving party for a bookstore coworker in London, and I remember it being an intense experience, as if I were being bathed in the book. I tend to go for the more obvious matches of place and book: on a trip to Japan last year I read The Tale of Genji; on trips to London I usually bring along a volume of Dickens and A Dance to the Music of Time. But maybe you'll inspire me to try mixing it up!