Jaslo's review
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
I am hesitant to read a How to____ book if I don't know how I feel toward the talent and wisdom of its author. In this case I dove in blind as I've never read any of Dillard's fiction. The book races along with one anecdote after another, interspersing bits of Dillard's attested wisdom. Some of its lovely: "Only after the writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature." In the end it lost my interest, the metaphors didn't appeal to me (lots of aeroplanes and log cabins,) and I began to doubt her talent.
--Strunk would probably know but; I dove in blind or Dived into it blind...???
--Strunk would probably know but; I dove in blind or Dived into it blind...???
