The ethics of admiration
Great essay by Darryl Pinckney on Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Elizabeth Hardwick and Susan Sontag in the Threepenny Review.
Writers on writing: Vonnegut
“When I teach – and I’ve taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop for a couple of years, at City College, Harvard – I’m not looking for people who want to be writers. I’m looking for people who are passionate, who care terribly about something.