Daily Archives: July 8, 2007
be away
I’m writing this alone in the MacDowell Colony Hall, in the early afternoon, after enjoying a peanutbutter and honey sandwich. There’s a beautiful light wind steady outside, making the branches move and keeping the day cool. I admit to being … Continue reading
Filed under Korean American, letters from away, novels, writers, writing
Utopia is the problem
Light and darkness — heavenly forces and a corrupted earth — are the twin engines of apocalyptic movements. For Christians awaiting rapture or Shiites counting the days until the Twelfth Imam appears, the trials and injustices of the known world … Continue reading
Filed under apocalypse
short observation after my week in Maine
Reading Anna Karenina at the beach will hurt your hands, if you are on your back, holding it over your face for hours.
Filed under letters from away
