Stalking the Wild Muse: The Muse of the Manure Fork

A series exploring the props, habits, and drugs that fuel the writer’s productivity. Past, present and future! Look for BVC writers, plus other authors we know and love.

When I was in grad school at an Old European University and then at an Old Ivy in the New World, mens sana in corpore sano– “A sound mind in a sound body”–was still very much a thing. We were encouraged to live a physical as well as an intellectual life, and offered any and all sorts of options to make this possible, from intr...