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I went to the farmer’s market over the weekend – this was about as much as my bag could carry.
I’ve been waiting for this piece to be written:
“In the end, the events of Oak Creek are tragic on at least two levels. There is the tragedy inherent in the brutal murders, the heroic sacrifices, the anguished waiting, and the grief of relatives whose lives will never be the same. But there is also the larger one of our inability to understand this attack as an assault upon the American dream and therefore a threat to us all. The cost of this second tragedy is one that the entire nation will bear.”
Point Dume, CA
Morning cafe
From a rest stop outside of Marfa, Texas
Ernest Hemingway wrote 47 endings to A Farewell To Arms (which will soon all be published)
Go Go Go
Hello world,
Today marks day two of a grand adventure – a cross country move and two week road trip through the depths of America. Follow the progress at goldinthemtharhills.tumblr.com!
On Un-True Nonfiction:
“We hear a lot these days about two opposing tendencies in literature. On the one hand, there’s a tendency away from the novel, toward nonfiction. On the other hand, there’s a tendency away from objective journalism, toward memoiristic or essayistic nonfiction. They’re opposing tendencies, but they both reflect an anxiety about how much we can trust facts. We expect facts to give us objective truth, but objective truth keeps eluding us. We move away from the novel, because the novel isn’t factual; but in our nonfiction writing, we feel constantly compelled to cast doubt on our access to objective facts. We hire teams of fact-checkers to track them down. Fact-checkers do a lot of great work, but they can’t solve the nature of reality for us.”
