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...PH: I spent the year flat broke going from reading to reading. Whenever anyone would come up to me after a reading and say, “I’m going to have my book club read the book,” I’d say, “I’ll come.” It was very grassroots, and it was a lovely way to spend a year, talking to nice people who like your book...
...PH: The story germinated out of old, semi-legendary family stories told me by my maternal grandfather about his childhood in northern Maine, which was impoverished. His father abandoned his family when my grandfather was 12 because he had epilepsy and his wife was going to have him admitted to an asylum. That was a formative family legend, but I could never get my grandfather to elaborate on it—I don’t know if it was painful or just generational to only talk about. Just being interested in my family made [these legends] irresistible...
...PH: When I came to teach Expos and the Extension School, I worked on finishing the book in between teaching and raising a couple of sons. In order to teach Expos, I had to think about the architecture of argument. I thought about the technical aspects of making arguments in order to do creative writing. I had thought these two things were exclusive realms, but it turns out they’re not. I was constantly teaching published stories to the students and having conversations not only with them, but also with myself about writing. I really really really learned...
Complexity is the mode of the second author, Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, whose book Thrift: Rebirth of a Forgotten Virtue may be tough sledding for the non-Ph.D. reader. Malloch, who has held positions at the U.N., the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and the State Department, writes with passion in an ambitiously academic style. He examines the history of the concept of thrift--the root of the word is an Old Norse verb meaning "to thrive"--citing the contributions of the Scots and Calvinists. Malloch, like Farrell, considers frugality a moral imperative as well as an economic necessity. "Thrift...
...months without charge, on condition that they are opened regularly to the public. Tenants range from rappers and conceptual sound artists to classical composers and theater directors, so visitors should expect diversity: during a recent visit, happenings included a complimentary qigong workshop, a staging of Racine's Phèdre and a mechanical chair lurching across the complex's imposing central courtyard to the fraught polyrhythmic stylings of a string quartet. It's enough to wake the dead...