Materfamilias Writes

This and That — Life-Writing and Fiction . . .

This and That — Life-Writing and Fiction . . .

A potpourri as I try to tidy up the bookshelves at the change of year: Reading Gary Snyder’s essay collection, The Practice of the Wild, I kept recalling Cheryl Strayed’s Wild, and there was something more…

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Winter Scenes and Adam Gopnik’s Winter

Winter Scenes and Adam Gopnik’s Winter

Funnily enough, at least in retrospect, I hurried to finish Winter, a collection of last year’s (five) Massey Lectures. Joining a long list of illustrious speakers (Thomas King, Margaret Atwood, Northrop Frye, Ursula Franklin, Noam…

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Sensational Historical Adventure!

Sensational Historical Adventure!

A happy surprise for me earlier this summer was having a should-read turn out to be a considerable pleasure. I had put the heftily-titled In the Wake of the War Canoe: A Stirring Record of…

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Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma

Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma

Once again, I’m trying to catch up to my writing so that I can get on with my reading. And I’m reminding myself that my only commitment is to record what I’ve read; no demand…

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take one down, pass it around, too many bottles of . . . water?

take one down, pass it around, too many bottles of . . . water?

I’m trying to write a little piece on style/fashion, but I’m rethinking and revising and cutting out big sections, so it will be a while. Meanwhile, I noticed this in this morning’s news and am…

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