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Mentoring is the last refuge of the older artist. With luck, disciples will keep one's books in print, one's reputation alive.

~Michael Dirda

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Literary generations come and go, and each generation passeth away and is heard of no more. In the end, simply the making itself - of poems and stories and essays - delivers the only reward a writer can be sure of. And, perhaps, the only one that matters.

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In my younger days, I used to visit record shops and covet boxed sets of Beethoven symphonies, Wagner operas, Bach cantatas, Mozart piano concertos. Only rarely was I able to find the money for such luxuries.

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Once upon a time, I sat in my mother's lap as she turned the pages of Golden Books, and I gradually learned to read.

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When I come to visit my mom - every two or three months - I generally spend five or six hours with her each day. She's always immensely glad to see me, her eldest child, her only son.

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At the age of 14, I ran away from home for four days and hitchhiked around western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio.

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At 17, I traveled to Mexico in a lemon yellow Mustang and saved money by bunking down in cheap, cockroach-infested flophouses. In my early 20s, I went on to thumb rides through Europe, readily sleeping in train stations, my backpack as a pillow. Once I even hunkered down for a night on a sidewalk grate - for warmth - in Paris.

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At any given moment, I've always assumed that nearly everyone around me was smarter than I was, more naturally gifted, quicker-witted, and probably capable of understanding Heidegger and Derrida.

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I'm sometimes willing to put in vast, even inordinate amounts of time if I find a project that interests me.

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With concerted effort, I can follow written instructions, but don't ask me to simply grasp how to operate a smartphone.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: Unknown

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