“It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.”
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To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.
If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?
Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.
Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.