Letters & Essays of the Day
GemStone
By Tao Lin
You also see the town constable, a banana cupcake, a large acorn, and an herbal remedy donation bin.
Letters & Essays: 1980s
On Inspiration
By Jack Kerouac, Stanley Kunitz, Robert Lowell, Norman Mailer, Bernard Malamud, William Maxwell, Thomas McGuane, James Merrill, Henry Miller & Marianne Moore
What follows are the authors’ discussions on the first stirrings, the germination of a poem, or a work of fiction. Any number of headings would be appropriate: Beginnings, The Starting Point, etc. Inspiration would be as good as any.