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...Became a Writer.” She began with her family history, then moved on to her childhood in northern Quebec and later Toronto, a time where she “read everything I could get my hands on.” Atwood placed the “literature?? of her childhood into three categories: “acceptable” books read for school, “acceptable” books read out of school and, finally, True Romance novels. Grinning, she told her audience, “I learned many things about the seedier side...
...public’s new demand for thoughtful, considered analyses and subsequent aversion to the phoned-in paperbacks they so recently tolerated might make the current industry climate bittersweet. Nonetheless, who could really view the shift as anything but positive? Sept. 11 was certainly a cruel awakening. For literature??s sake, let’s hope we stay awake...
...feel much freer in the classroom now, and I’m more inclined to let the literature??especially the poetry—speak a good deal for itself, in conversation with my students. For this to happen, one needs very fine students. Bright, yes. But also with considerable ability to understand human beings and experience, since reading literature requires that—a good ear, a relish for words and rhythms and a feel for syntax...
...choose your addictions carefully. Notice the space you live in, and think about its possible meanings. Engage with some significant works of literature??defined in the broadest sense to include really any field of study: when you are directly in touch with profound writing and thought, when you are talking in an engaged way with others about such work, then you are likely to feel completely alert, alive and enlarged. And that is education...
...book they are only related by the initiating impulse in the soul of the artist. A pretty slick answer to the accusation of arbitrariness, is it not? Maybe if Calasso had spent more of the book explaining why he feels “absolute literature?? is without context, and proved that point before gallivanting around the literary canon like a madman, the book would have been a sounder read...