Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now

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Category: reading

  • Beautiful small bookstores

    The book was waiting for me. It was a moment when you can’t help believing in fate. I’ve been compiling a list of books to discuss with fellow writers at a workshop I’m giving in June. I want a range of voices and genres, and woke up one morning in early January thinking to include…

  • Teacher appears

    What a challenging few days it’s been, watching the news, hearing the yelling match across the divide of people who see different things in the videos of the shooting of an American citizen by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. In the middle of all that, I stumbled on a New York Times interview with…

  • New entanglements

    A few days ago I posted some quotes from author Pico Iyer. Then I decided to bring one of his books along on my upcoming travels and selected The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home. He wrote it at the turn of the century, such a distant time. It was…