Gleanings: The Glory of Maximalist Prose, the Shadow of Creative Calling, and Ray Bradbury on the Mystery of Space Travel

Here are some new reading and viewing recommendations, with accompanying commentary, that I’ve brought back from my recent foragings. Items this time include:

David Bentley Hart on the scourge of modern English prose minimalism and the glory of exuberantly flouting its precepts

podcaster and novelist Rachel Schwartzmann on the sanctity of private writing—journals, diaries, and the like—in our age of always-on public sharing

novelist Ellen Pall on rediscovering authorial drive and direction by bliss...