Comments on: Our Best American Essays

By: Two Hungry Davids « Bill and Dave's Cocktail Hour

Two Hungry Davids « Bill and Dave's Cocktail Hour — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:04:40 +0000

[...] they said. Hmmm, I wondered, who is this Shields of whom they speak? The ideas in my essay—Against a Literature of Fact—were ones I had chewed over for a couple decades, ideas that had obsessed me as a writer, teacher [...]

By: Johnson-mania! « Bill and Dave's Cocktail Hour

Johnson-mania! « Bill and Dave's Cocktail Hour — Mon, 17 May 2010 18:09:10 +0000

[...] fashion, made him all the greater. (For “Benediction,” my essay on Bate, click here.) There is not much more I can say about his monumental biography of Johnson except it is one of [...]

By: Beginning Is Terrifying Business « Bill and Dave's Cocktail Hour

Beginning Is Terrifying Business « Bill and Dave's Cocktail Hour — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 04:43:51 +0000

[...] about apprenticeship, that is, about getting started. The first is Bill’s great essay, “On Apprenticeship,” which gets right to the heart of the matter. The second is a piece I wrote just a couple of [...]