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what have i done with my life

what have i done with my life

by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 11, 2009 | Dani Shapiro, life, time | 10 comments

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...
How We Spend Our Days: Dani Shapiro

How We Spend Our Days: Dani Shapiro

by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Sep 1, 2009 | Dani Shapiro, How We Spend Our Days | 15 comments

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: I awake as I...
something more

something more

by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Dec 9, 2008 | continuous life, Dani Shapiro | 0 comments

My favorite passage in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway: “Do you remember the lake? she said, in an abrupt voice, under pressure of an emotion which caught her heart, made the muscles of her throat stiff, and contracted her lips in a spasm as she said...
family history

family history

by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Oct 30, 2008 | craft of writing, Dani Shapiro, details | 1 comment

Dani Shapiro is one of my all-time favorite writers.  She knows how to tell a story–how to slowly release details in order to build tension and lure the reader forward. The first book of hers I read was Family History, published in 2003, but which I did not...

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