by Cynthia Newberry Martin | May 18, 2010 | catching moments, Dani Shapiro, the day |
I was going to write a bit more about The Maytrees, but yesterday I read a post by Alexander Chee in which he wrote about, in addition to many other wonderful things including the connection between novels and the news, his pre-writing rituals and the need to adapt....
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 25, 2010 | Dani Shapiro, place |
So sorry for the radio silence but I’m at the Sirenland Writer’s Conference. I was here for 2 1/2 days before I had a second to log in to the internet, which is the longest I’ve been offline in over a year. And that was just to check email. I mean,...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 28, 2010 | continuous life, Dani Shapiro, life |
Devotion, the new memoir by Dani Shapiro, is divided into 102 sections. Number 54 is one of my favorites. In it, Dani writes about two subjects that have intrigued me for some time. The first one not surprisingly has to do with memory. She writes: “Why do we...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 10, 2010 | Dani Shapiro, journeys, life, memoir |
“Yogis use a beautiful Sanskrit word samskara, to describe the knots of energy that are locked in the hips, the heart, the jaw, the lungs. Each knot tells a story–a narrative rich with emotional detail. Release a samskara and you release the story. Release...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 11, 2009 | Dani Shapiro, life, time |
Behind me climbs a tower of papers, each one containing a thought or a quote or an article that I want to write about here. A few minutes ago, I started shuffling through the stack. About midway down, I stopped on a piece of graph paper on which I had scrawled these...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 1, 2009 | Dani Shapiro, How We Spend Our Days |
Annie Dillard wrote, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” On the first of each month, Catching Days hosts a guest writer in the series, “How We Spend Our Days.” Today, please welcome writer DANI SHAPIRO: A I awake as I...
