| Crow on a Branch, by Kawanabe Kyōsai, ca. 1887 |
from Journal Dec 23 2014
Guardian article by Robert Macfarlane about the 5-year composition process of "The Old Ways" how he assembled it in bits and pieces before he found a "theme."
My book began as gleaned images, fragment-phrases and half-thoughts, scribbled onto file cards or jotted in journals.
He references his reading of...
essays of John Jeremiah Sullivan, Rebeca Solnit, DFW
reportage of Katherine Boo, John McPhee, William T. Vollman
travelogues of Barry Lopez, William Dalrymple, Iain Sinclair
when energy ebbing: John Banville and Cormac McCarthy
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