https://jerrydennis.net/1/post/2013/03/the-most-interesting-thing-i-read-today.html Author Fri, 01 Apr 2022 21:03:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6 https://jerrydennis.net/1/post/2013/03/the-most-interesting-thing-i-read-today.html#comment-14 Jerry Dennis Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:26:34 +0000 http://jerrydennis.net/?p=412#comment-14 Steve — I remember watching her swimming in Walloon and thinking that she was about to transform into a form of water herself. And I too felt her distance. Keith Taylor and I gave her a ride into Petoskey and back the evening of her reading and I tried my best to get her to laugh by telling stories of growing up in northern Michigan with my wild-ass friends, but didn’t succeed. Her books are brilliant. And inscrutable…

]]> https://jerrydennis.net/1/post/2013/03/the-most-interesting-thing-i-read-today.html#comment-13 Steve Gilzow Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:36:12 +0000 http://jerrydennis.net/?p=412#comment-13 I also read this piece in the NYT. Carson’s public reading (red shoes!), along with my self-conscious “Hello” to her as she emerged, dripping, at the Walloon Lake beach, are among my more vivid memories of the Bear River conference a few years ago. Everything she said and did seemed to come from a place two sandbars and one ice shelf beyond the rest of us.

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