Tag: readings

• What’s in a reading? Some observations as attendee, as author

  A former professor once said that she liked to think of readings as gifts: something that one gives one’s audience. That listeners can enjoy and take meaning, amusement, solace from. Or anything, really; it’s the author’s gift to give. What it does is, by and large, up to them. I am fortunate to live in […]

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  Julie Israel

  30 September, 2014

  Books, Inspiration, Reading, Writing

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