Books & Writers

Short quotes from books are in the “Commonplace Book”, which you can find on the main menu.   I collect those as I read just when something strikes me.   This list is just for longer pieces, of my own.  

• “My Antonia”, Willa Cather
• “My Bright Abyss”, Christian Wiman
• “The DaVinci Code”, Dan Brown
• “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America”, Bill Bryson
• Book: “Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing”, by Frederick Franck
• Charles Taylor: St. Francis and the Particular
• David Foster Wallace
• Douglas Wilson: on what “Twilight” says about love.
• Gore Vidal
• Guns, Germs, and Steel: Jared Diamond
• Marilynn Robinson: Paris Review interview, quotes
• Notes from Neil Postman: “Amusing Ourselves To Death”
• On finishing the Mataxas Bonhoeffer Biography
• Paul Elie defines “pilgrimage”
• Paul Elie, on Thomas Merton, on Conversation
• The Guns of August, by Barbara Tuchman
• Tolkien: Start with the eagles