It Was A Silence That Heard Itself,

I Write Articles, And I Do Profiles Of Members Of Organizations And Associations.

Téa Obreht Is The Most Thrilling Literary Discovery In Years

We Seldom Know What We're Hearing When We Hear Something For The First Time, But One Thing Is Certain: We Hear It As We Will Never Hear It Again. We Return To The Moment To Experience It, I Suppose, But We Can Never Really Find It, Only Its Memory, The Faintest Imprint Of What Really Was, What It Meant.

I Grew Up Sort Of Middle Class, Safe And Suburban.

The Irish Are Great For Their Tunes, But All Their Lovesongs Are Sad And Their Warsongs Happy.