Thursday, June 18, at 7:30pm, Janet Conner will be at Magers & Quinn Booksellers to discuss her new book Writing Down Your Soul: How to Activate and Listen to the Extraordinary Voice Within.If you want to engage in a vibrant conversation with the wisdom that dwells just a hair below your conscious awareness, write. Write … Continue reading Writing as a Spiritual Practice
I Turn the Radio On
Caleb Crain's awesomely-named blog Steamboats Are Ruining Everything has a post today about the forthcoming book Heavy Rotation: Twenty Writers on the Albums That Changed Their Lives. There is the usual list of publication events, but I was most struck by two of the contributors and their subjects: Pankaj Mishra on ABBAJames Wood on the … Continue reading I Turn the Radio On
Hungry? You Won’t Be After You Watch This
Michael Pollan's trajectory from curious (Botany of Desire) to puzzled (Omnivore's Dilemma) to educational (In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto) has gone all the way to homiletic with his new film Food, Inc.. Pollan wrote the film along with Eric "Fast Food Nation" Schlosser. Pollan and director Robert Kenner talked to salon.com about the … Continue reading Hungry? You Won’t Be After You Watch This
Musings from Magers and Quinn 