A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

BEING A WRITER/ARTIST IN THE REAL WORLD

Ann Patchett, This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage (New York: Harper, 2013) (From "Nonfiction, an Introduction": "The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living." Id. at 1, 1.).