Clem Taylor’s Ode to Joy
“Beauty has a way of turning up in places where you’d least expect it.” Our friend Clem Taylor, who died last month, won the Peabody Award for this story he produced for 60 Minutes. “Joy in the Congo” originally aired on …
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Gabriel García Márquez – Responding with Life
While visiting Cartagena last month, we had the opportunity to see the seaside home of Gabriel García Márquez. At the time, we wrote our own, humble, homage to the great Nobel Prize-winning Colombian writer and journalist who died yesterday at age …
The Chemo Versus Sex Ratio
“So… how often do you get it?” asked a friend in an e-mail. “More often than sex? You better not have to get chemo more often than sex.” I received that e-mail six years ago this week, while sitting in …
On the Road: Cartagena
“It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there’s not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is …
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Winter, Through the Looking Glass
I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer …
Down the Hatch, Over the Counter, Under the Knife
How writers write seems to be an endlessly fascinating subject (at least for writers). Recently, Olivia Laing has been getting good reviews for The Trip To Echo Spring, a book about famous writers who found inspiration in the bottle. A …
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It Is Written
Here at re:Write, we like to cite various experts on the importance of good writing, and how to accomplish it. People like Alexander Pope, and Edward R. Murrow. But today, in the words of the old Hebrew National hotdog ad, …
Four Score and Seven Years Ago…
How much can you say in a two-minute speech? On the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address, here are Abraham Lincoln’s immortal words. Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived …
She Should Have Called re:Write
Words aren’t generally the first things that come to mind when thinking about the opera, but writing figures prominently in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. In Act I, the bookworm heroine, Tatiana, meets Onegin, falls instantly and madly in love, and decides …
On the Road: Color in the Catskills
Whoever has made a voyage up the Hudson must remember the Kaatskill Mountains. They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family, and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height, and …
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