Sunday Nov. 26 is the birthday of Marilynne Robinson, the renowned novelist and essayist!
The next collection of Marilynne Robinson essays — to be released in 2018 — is What Are We Doing Here?: Essays
In anticipation of this essay collection, we offer the following list of ten of the finest Marilynne Robinson essays that can be read in full online!
You will find the title essay of this forthcoming collection (which first appeared in The NY Review of Books) near the end of this list… Enjoy these essays!!!
of Marilynne Robinson
in Appreciation of Robinson
On Finding the Right Word
via The NY Times Book Review
One of the things I love about Emily Dickinson is the way that, every time I read her poetry, I feel as though I’m encountering it for the first time. It has a reserve of meaning that seems to open very slowly over a long series of readings. Part of that is due to the extreme compression of her poems, which strip away everything inessential, greatly magnifying the potency of each individual word. She puts an extraordinary pressure on language by her parsimoniousness.
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