Letters & Essays of the Day
Scraps
By Abdulah Sidran
The past wasn’t talked about, but you could feel its tentacles wherever you looked.
Letters & Essays: 1980s
On Inspiration
By William Gaddis, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, William Goyen, Robert Graves, Henry Green, Joseph Heller, John Hersey, Aldous Huxley, Guillermo Cabrera Infante & John Irving
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.