Keynote Address: Sweetbriar College — September 22,2006 … →
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May 15, 2012
Women, Power and Money
April 10, 2012
Tax Time: Inherited Money
April 3, 2012
And Again, Adrienne
How reassuring it is to find a second appraisal, to my mind more sensitive and compelling than the first, in The New York Times (March 31). … →
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March 30, 2012
Adrienne Rich Is Dead
March 29, 2012
What They Really Want Isn’t Fame or Fortune But Permission to Articulate Their Feelings
This essay, by Steve Almond, from the March 25th edition of The New York Times, comes like a bombshell, dispelling not only my notions about why people take the writing workshops I teach, but why I often find teaching them frustrating. … →
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March 27, 2012
Do You Wear Shorts?
Five days ago I had an astonishing experience as I was waiting in line to get on an American Eagle regional jet in Louisville, Kentucky, flying to Chicago. … →
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March 15, 2012
Hats and Pearls…
“Doing good” has always been associated with that look which is why Doris Duke, mysterious, unpredictable, may turn out to be an interesting subject for my next book. Already I gather that she “did good” without caring much about it or dreaming of wearing “do good” clothes. … →
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March 2, 2012
The Uses of Scandal
Next week, as I begin to unravel the many strands of Doris Duke’s life, preserved in a massive archive at Duke University in Durham, NC, I must work hard to clear away my presumptions, in fact, my prejudices about a woman whose whole history seems, superficially, at least, to have been clouded, or distorted, by scandal. … →
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February 28, 2012
Barney Rosset
February 23, 2012
A Perhaps Hand
“Spring is like a perhaps hand in the window,” e e cummings wrote, and while I can never literally explain what he meant—what line of poetry can be literally explained?—the line always comes to mind when I see the first hints that spring will eventually be here, even in the mountains of northern New Mexico: a bud encrusted with snow, a nest that will soon be used, the first leaves of the daffodil bulbs I planted last fall. … →
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