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A self-imposed Cultural Revolution, a grandmother to people of all ages, a to-do list
By Our ReadersJuly 1987Catching the eye of Harper and Row, being the first one into Chico Creek every spring, being tethered to the clothesline
By Our ReadersJune 1987Writing words on paper is particularly arrogant. How presumptuous to believe that words on paper can capture meaning, freeze life, hold it for even a moment.
By Richard MeislerApril 1987A great masterpiece might sit there beside some obscure and shoddy effort. Schools and universities told you what books were great and worthy and famous; a library sat there mutely and let you decide.
By David GuyOctober 1986It’s as if you’re walking on your heart and it’s holding you the way the earth holds you up — if you let it — or the spirit holds you up, your heart and your spirit, one holding you by one arm and the other supporting the other arm.
By Deena MetzgerAugust 1986July 1986We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
Herman Melville
For about fifteen minutes every day I worry about AIDS or herpes or Pentagon cost overruns. It’s not that they have any great effect on me, it’s just that I am a broad-based, categorical worrier.
By Ralph EarleJuly 1986Finding then losing then finding again a pocketknife, losing yourself in a bookstore, losing your sex drive
By Our ReadersJune 1986The artist speaks of the “muse” and the musician says “I was hot,” but in their hearts there is only mysterious joy: I was present at a beautiful event and yet it was not “I.”
By Adam FisherJune 1986Personal, political, provocative writing delivered to your doorstep every month—without a single ad.
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