Booklife Sliver: The Imagination (Draped with Venus in Furs)

(DeVotchka covers the Velvet Underground, transforming the song by re-envisioning it through their own musical imagination.)

The imagination moves beyond passion: it is a life-long relationship with the world that transforms both the world and the writer. All of the best fiction hums and purrs and sighs with the imagination, and in this way fiction mirrors the best of life. But no imagination can long survive without recourse to curiosity and receptivity and discipline as well. It needs all of t