from“It’s become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole, of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well. There is something unwholesome and destrucive about the entire writing process…”
Joy sans sunglasses! Check out the inaugural Tin House podcast episode, featuring Joy Williams’ Tin House Workshop reading of “Why I Write,” from Ill Nature.