Scott Borchert is the author of Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America. Here is a taste of his recent piece at The New York Times: Opponents will complain about excessive spending or subversive […]
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What does this McDonalds booth have to do with the American Bible Society?
Last weekend Joy and I were driving home from Providence, R.I. on Route 287 and we stopped at the McDonalds in Boonton, New Jersey. Until recently, my parents lived in the Boonton/Montville area. I was raised there, although the McDonalds […]
Reading Annie Dillard’s The Writing Life in a pandemic
This is wonderful reflection on the writing by Alejandra Olivia. A taste: She writes of the writing life as monastic and hard and isolated; I was hoping for love and connection and some ease, after finally having escaped from the […]