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  • A friend of mine

    recently said it’s important to do something badly but in a dedicated way. I thought about this. At first I thought, I do nothing without a goal. But then I realized I have been doing yoga since I was seven, not all the time–not enough at all– but in a regular way, and I still [...]

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  • on memory

    yes to you who mentioned Eudora, in response to my bog about her. How when memory flows through a person the living and the dead co-mingle. I am sorry not to be able to respond more exactly to those of you who have asked me questions. I don’t know, is the truth of it, I [...]

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  • i am alive

    This is indeed a living blog, though it has been hibernating for a while. I have been writing this book every spare second. But I will try now to write a little something more regularly. I have been teaching once a week at NYU, a course called Directing the Actor. My students are undergraduates. I [...]

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  • Barbara Browning. Dreams in films. Lions.

    Here is something I am excited about: Barbara Browning’s first published novel, The Correspondence Artist, is coming out in February. I think it’s a unique, deeply modern book. Also sexy. Perhaps some of you would enjoy it. My opinion goes beyond the fact that Barbara is my best friend. We met in college. She appeared [...]

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  • on writing. tidal waves. Eudora Welty

    My son tells me a mega-Tsunami is expected to hit Manhattan and wipe it out entirely. Understandably, he finds this disconcerting. So do I. All chaos is disconcerting. The Egyptians, this same son has informed me, divided the world into order and chaos, instead of good and evil. Goodness is order, what we can predict. [...]

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