What Essays Are, and What Essayists Do - Public Books
What dance is to movement, essays are to thought
There is a moment in Philip Glass’s memoir, Words without music, when he works as assistant to the sculptor Richard Serra.
“You know, Richard, I wish I could draw,” says Glass. “I can’t even draw a tree.”
“I can help you with that,” says Serra.
“Really? How?”
“I’ll teach you to ‘see’ and then you will be... See more
There is a moment in Philip Glass’s memoir, Words without music, when he works as assistant to the sculptor Richard Serra.
“You know, Richard, I wish I could draw,” says Glass. “I can’t even draw a tree.”
“I can help you with that,” says Serra.
“Really? How?”
“I’ll teach you to ‘see’ and then you will be... See more