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Michael Cunningham

  • Finding Your Inner Compass

    March 16, 2009

    • We live in a noisy culture -- deliciously, horribly, overwhelmingly, fascinatingly noisy. The kind of work we do as writers and artists both arises from our lives and has to resist those circumstances, in order to happen at all. How is it possible to write poetry or fiction, to create a performance, to make a song, painting, sculpture, or collage? All day long, our email dings, our friends invite ...
  • A Perfect Pleasure

    September 12, 2008

    • In a sea of, well, ick, there is one pure delight to which I constantly turn: deciding what book to read next. At the moment, I’m well-stocked at home with Books That Need To Be Read, which is fantastic, like having your own private bookstore, and I love browsing my shelves.Shelves that are full of Books I Love, Books I Hate, Books I Go Back To For Comfort, Books I Keep To Remind Me Of Where I ...