Sublime

infinitesimally

‘Dorian Gray’.

Olds still writes by hand, in cheap spiral-bound notebooks. When she’s really humming, she can fill a whole notebook in just a few days. Only a small fraction of this private writing will ever be published. Publication, for Olds, is not entirely the point. The act of writing itself, she insists, is fun —a physical discipline that sits somewhere

grok

fastidious