After a two-year hiatus from reading fiction, I’ve picked it up again.
While in grad school, I immersed myself in the writing of great nonfiction authors: Agee, McPhee, Kidder, etc. You name ‘em, I at least tried to read ‘em. I was undeterred from nonfiction even during holiday breaks, alternating between narrative journalism and [...]
Archive for June, 2007
Bookshelf
Posted in Essay, Words, Writing on June 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Iverson
Posted in Joyful Things on June 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
After all that hemming and hawing about becoming a blogger, I have now completely outdone myself. My entries have gotten so long that I barely have the time to read them. Sorry. What can I say? I’m a newbie.
This is my joy today. Iverson Adams Dunaway Fairmont Kintz.
Ivy, for [...]
Prove It!
Posted in Essay, Faith, Life, Musing, Wanderings on June 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Recently, I had a conversation with a friend about the existence of God. We never said it that way, as in: “Do you believe in God?” – but that’s what it was about.
We were discussing a recent research project in the news, from which scientists had discovered the part of the brain that collects [...]
On the Outskirts of a Forest
Posted in Words on June 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
“Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what’s going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question [...]
W E L C O M E
Posted in Welcome on June 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
My name is Towles. I’m a writer.
Often, when I tell people I’m a writer, they ask, “What do you write?” Right now, I write whatever anyone will pay me to write. But what I really love is narrative journalism, essay and poetry, and if I could spend my life doing any combination of those three [...]
Word Box
Posted in Words on June 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I remember the day I fell in love with language. I was in kindergarten, and my teacher, Mrs. Buchanan, had given us all a box full of words.
The words were written in a bold, black magic marker on what were probably snippets of old manila file folders. They were placed in a box we’d brought from home.
Mine [...]
Confession
Posted in Wanderings on June 5, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Before fairly recently, I thought blogging was kind of a nerdy thing to do. I pictured bloggers as sort of intense, socially-challenged people who weren’t getting enough out of life and were therefore forced to turn to their computers for companionship.
But then my friend Traci, who is one of the cooler people I know, started a [...]
A Sliver of Joy
Posted in Joyful Things on June 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I have questioned whether or not to keep the “other joyful things” section on this blog. When I typed it in as part of the header, I didn’t really think about it, did not consider that it might make me seem overly cheerful, or kind of sappy.
Now, however, I wonder if this tag line somehow [...]
