Annie Dillard’s “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” dares us to open our eyes.
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DIY MFA Reading List: “Suttree” by Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy’s tragicomic “Suttree” is fueled not by a love of life, but an obsession with the certainty of death.
Continue readingThe Ornithologist’s Last Wish
“The geese are winging in from the north. First a hairline thread in the muted horizon, then a cross-stitch in the sky over Portaferry, in County Down, Northern Ireland. Soon a dark and honking seam gliding in against the ebbing tidal narrows, breaking rank at last to alight in ungainly spray atop the waters of Strangford Lough …”
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