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W. H. Auden at the 92nd Street Y

They rose before us under a halo of lights like figures in a shrine.

Warrior Jesus

He’s not the skinny hippie all the paintings make Him out to be.

What Makes a Good Story Great

Lori & Garry Marshall

What?

These sounds for you, verbs of attraction. Matters of tense.

When Enough Is Enough: Age and the Creative Impulse

What about writers who come suddenly into full power late in life?

When Enough Is Enough: Age and the Creative Impulse

What about writers who come suddenly into full power late in life?

Why I Have Decided to Live

Because I can love every small thing.

Wife 22

Best-selling author Melanie Gideon reads from her novel Wife 22.

Wife 22

The light is like a benediction. My husband reaches for my hand.

Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady at One Hundred

This is a novel that contains more than its actuarial share of falls.

Writer’s Cottage

Something is wrong with that place. Someone’s still there . . .

Writing

Literary gatherings are a nightmare because writers have no shop talk.

Writing in October

The slow-falling leaves contain the space of the story I’m pursuing.

Yeats on Wilde

“The basis of literary friendship is mixing the poisoned bowl.”

Yet and Other Poems

No more laughing like the waves. No more ocean of words to drink from.