When Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” was taught to me, it was as though only the last three lines existed: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Out of context, it looks like it’s a poem about enjoying […]
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Writing about Reading
A couple weeks ago, I read an article on The Nation website called The Democracy of Difficult Fiction that I’m still rolling around in my head. I write about reading a fair amount because it’s through reading that I learned the most about writing. I discovered most things about writing through sitting down and doing […]