Vincent Van Gogh – Human Pages

There is Only the Trying: Some Thoughts on Fame & Failure

17 Jul 2019

A reader favorite from 2016, that I like to repost now & then: 1. When Derek Jeter retired from baseball in the fall of 2014, those who followed his last season heard the unsurprising story that he’d wanted to be shortstop for the New York Yankees since he was a little boy. And as I watched his last home game […]

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Images: The Act of Writing

10 Apr 2018

The Poet Speaks

The Poet Speaks #4: O’Connor, Campbell, Merwin, Walcott, van Gogh

26 Jan 2018 3 Comments

Flannery O’Connor responds to questions from academics and their students about her short stories: Week before last I went to Wesleyan and read “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” After it I went to one of the classes where I was asked questions. There were a couple of young teachers there and one of them, an earnest type, started […]