by Robin Kirk | Dec 14, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.” It was as though different vintages of sadness were stored in different parts of his mind, stacked...
by Robin Kirk | Dec 9, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
I was beginning to delve into the report on torture released by the Senate Intelligence Committee when my daughter texted. A senior at college, she was following the New York Times twitter feed highlighting the executive summary as reporters raced to the end....
by Robin Kirk | Nov 23, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
In which I take part in David Abrams’ #Sundaysentence, sharing a well-crafted sentence I’ve read this week, without introduction or explanation. And when I turned my eyes again from his ghastly face to the river, the current had done its work, and the body...
by Robin Kirk | Nov 19, 2014 | featured, Robin Kirk
Like many, I was shocked to hear that Barilla CEO Guido Barilla had told an Italian radio host that the family company “would never do [a commercial] with a homosexual couple, not for lack of respect, but because we don’t agree with them.” Barilla, based...
by Robin Kirk | Nov 16, 2014 | Robin Kirk
In which I take part in David Abram’s weekly Sunday Sentence, taking a sentence from a book I’m reading. This one is from the astonishing, disturbing, strange and completely wonderful Under the Skin by Michel Faber: “The vodsel’s eyes were wild...
by Robin Kirk | Nov 6, 2014 | Robin Kirk
As my writing friend Jenn (Barnes) Bishop wrote recently, it’s fairly common for books to have titles drawn from a phrase somewhere in the book. I’ve always considered myself pretty good with titles. They usually come up before I’ve written a word. But, in...
