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In his book The Crofter and the Laird, the American author John McPhee journeys to Colonsay, the tiny Hebridean island that was the home of his ancestors. Here, he discovers, ‘almost every rise of ground, every beach, field, cliff, gully, cave, and skerry has a name’. The island has only 138 inhabitants, but 1,600 place names.
Joe Moran • First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
TWELVE THESES ON ATTENTION
Susanna Moore, author of eleven books, who teaches creative writing at Princeton.
Sara Davidson • The Didion Files
How to Walk and Talk: Everything We Know
### Joan Didion
- Best Known Work:
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968) – A seminal collection of essays capturing the spirit of the 1960s, particularly in California.
- The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) – A powerful memoir about grief and the death of her husband, John Gregory Dunne.
- Underrated/Underdiscovered Work:
- Play It As It Lays (1970) – A
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