great life questions
Caro’s question is: How does political power really work in America?
Once he asks it, it takes the wheel. Caro is willing to go broke to answer it.
Packy McCormick • Long Questions/Short Answers
How can words capture the full depth, structure, and texture of reality?"
Packy McCormick • Long Questions/Short Answers
McPhee, writer
McPhee has published 34 books and written more than 100 articles for The New Yorker. That is the output of someone who is working on the craft itself. What’s more, McPhee has been teaching writing at Princeton University since 1975.
Caro asks: How does political power really work in America?
Packy McCormick • Long Questions/Short Answers
Robert Caro, writer
“How can we live a meaningful, non-bullshitty life in a world increasingly full of irony, entertainment, and distraction?”
Packy McCormick • Long Questions/Short Answers
DFW, writer
His novels, like Infinite Jest and The Pale King, are long (long) explorations of the question; his profiles, like David Lynch Keeps His Headto Roger Federer as a Religious Experience, examine rare individuals, whose strangeness and mastery, respectively, suggest an answer.
“The sadness over Wallace’s death was also connected to a feeling that, for all his outpouring of words, he died with his work incomplete. Wallace, at least, never felt that he had hit his target. His goal had been to show readers how to live a fulfilled, meaningful life. “Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being,” he once said.”