An Imposture of Writers at Iceland Writers Retreat
Ironically, there is no collective noun for writers. According to Google, James Lipton has suggested “a worship of writers.” Although Lipton is an expert on...
Laxness is Dependably Frustrating in Independent People
After hating The Great Weaver of Kashmir without being able to dismiss its quality, I read Independent People and didn’t know what to think. My...
Pollyblog: Maybe I Need a Book Group
. Once upon a book group I tried starting a book group in grad school. We were all broke grad students. So we didn’t require...
Unraveling The Great Weaver From Kashmir
As my trip to Iceland Airwaves grew imminent in October, I rushed to the library and asked what they had on the shelf by Halldór...