MEMBER BLOG TAG: family
| Monday, December 19, 2011 10:08AM | | | | Why Santa Returns on Christmas Day | Tags: Santa, Christmas, reindeer, New Year's Day, farm family, mail order, North Pole, daughter
| | | | For Deirdre Siobhan
What I wanted most for Christmas in my pre-school imagination was a huggable elephant. On Christmas morning when Mother woke us I rushed to get to the Christmas tree before my brother and sister. I didn’t but I didn’t cry either. I was too busy looking at all the wonders under the tree. The usual cap pistol and holster. A coloring book and crayons, and tiny hard candy beads inside a small thick-glass airplane. My boots were filled with nuts, an apple, and each wore an orange bigger than the top of my boots. I ate the candy beads first. Both my brother and sister had bigger boots but Dad shared the nuts and fruit he has in his so I didn’t cry... | | | | | | | Thursday, May 1, 2008 12:45PM | | | | Linking Fate | Tags: Rewriting Family
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Housing Works Used Book Café has a family feeling. Dark-brown wood bookcases reach to the high ceiling, an old Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer sign hangs over the counter, movable ladders lean against shelves filled with books. The audience for “Rewriting Family” kind of felt like a family. It was a mixed group of people, all “downtown” looking, many taking notes. I assumed that we were mainly writers searching for new, understandable ideas about home.
The evening was introduced by Joshua Ellison, editor of Habitus: A Diaspora Journal. He began with a thought-provoking way to open the door for discussion. “It’s against the backdrop of family life that we first sense that we’re distinct and singular beings, but it’s also our... | | | | | | | Friday, April 4, 2008 6:05PM | | | | view from the archive | Tags: documentarian, documentary, being the documentarian, archives, family history, history, photography, sadi ranson-polizzotti, pen american, pen, sadi ranson, heleina, tant mieux, archives, history, writing, writers,
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It's hard to capture the moment of any given moment in a single snapshot, and yet this shot, to me, captures everything about my most recent foray to NYC. It was subtle, full of life, soft, scented, productive, proud, energetic yet mild, and always but always with friends both old and new and discovering new things about myself and about them as well. One can hardly say that this was by any means a 'wasted' trip; besides which, no trip is wasted unless you make it so.
Life, like anything (and I realize this is trite) is what you make it. It's like that song by the group "Talk Talk" (remember them?) "Baby... life's what you make it..."... | | | | | | | Saturday, April 28, 2007 5:37PM | | | | Per Petterson and Marilyn Robinson | Tags: Marilynee Robinson, Per Petterson, fiction, voice, family,
research, style
| | | Marilynne Robinson (Housekeeping, Gilead) must be on everyone’s top 10 list of living American novelists, as well as on a top 10 list of teachers of fiction (Iowa). I’m ashamed to say that I’ve never read anything by either her or her companion panelist here, the Norwegian novelist Per Petterson (Out Stealing Horses), a failing that I intend to remedy.
So the following brief report is about the event, alone—a panel discussion on the voice in fiction, inspiration, attitude toward characters, and principal themes, which was briskly and very knowledgeably moderated by Radhika Jones, managing editor of The Paris Review.
Having run over to Lincoln Center from an... | | | | | |
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