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READING PLAN: SEPTEMBER THROUGH NOVEMBER 2023

I’ve settled on my reading list for the next three months. It’s a varied collection.
May Sarton and Juliette Huxley are two authors on this list that I knew virtually nothing about three months ago.

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THE FUZZY LINE BETWEEN FICTION AND NON-FICTION

My dissertation advisor was not only a theologian and philosopher, but also an avid fly fisherman. In one of our many conversations during the years I studied with him he recommended that I read A River Runs Through It, a novel by Norman Maclean.

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IT TAKES AS LONG AS IT TAKES

In Draft No. 4, John McPhee describes an important point about writing that he learned most pointedly shortly after beginning to write for The New Yorker.

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SUMMER READING RECAP

At the end of May, I put together a list of books I hoped to read over the next three months.

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HAPPINESS AS BY-PRODUCT RATHER THAN END

May Sarton:
… in seeking happiness above all, of course we never find it. It is a by-product and not the end of life surely.

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FREEDOM TO CHEW OVER ODD IDEAS

Jane Jacobs:
I was brought up to believe that there is no virtue in conforming meekly to the dominant opinion of the moment.

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