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- 1From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 62, Issue 4)I have been reading The Writing Life, by Annie Dillard. Though the short book does not concern higher education directly, it illuminates by analogy the life of serious learning. Ms. Dillard explores the perils of...
- 2From:Hollins Critic (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Living. By Annie Dillard. New York: HarperCollins. $22.50. (h.b.) Annie Dillard's first novel The Living is an important book, if not a wholly successful one. In it we see Dillard struggle to redefine the...
- 3From:National Forum (Vol. 69, Issue 2)ANNIE DILLARD, editor. The Best American Essays, 1988. New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1988. Even the sound of "expository prose" has somehow come to suggest the dry click of meatless bone on the plate, and we often...
- 4From:Hollins Critic (Vol. 30, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedImagine this. You are a lectured-into-submission child, attending another dull Protestant church service with your parents. The ordinariness of your life has driven you into a repressed fury that makes your stomach knot...
- 5From:Studies in the HumanitiesPeer-ReviewedI. MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE AND LITERATURE In her book The Space Between: Literary Epiphany in the Work of Annie Dillard, Sandra Johnson makes an interesting point right up front about the "illuminated moment" which is...
- 6From:Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (Vol. 45, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedJoe Henry's poem "The Wings That Fly Us Home" has always been very meaningful to me. I have listened to this poem in my car (in the form of a song sung by John Denver) for many years. The second verse (cited above) is...
- 7From:Hollins Critic (Vol. 14, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedHoly the Firm. By Annie Dillard. New York: Harper & Row. $6.50 (cloth). In only 76 pages, Holy the Firm is one woman's attempt to know and understand God. Through the course of three clays, each itself a God, Annie...
- 8From:Hollins Critic (Vol. 25, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAn American Childhood. By Annie Dillard. New York: Harper & Row. $17.95 (h.b.) "I grew up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s," Annie Dillard writes, "in a house full of comedians, reading books." Dillard's seventh book, this...
- 9From:Hollins Critic (Vol. 21, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedLiving by Fiction. By Annie Dillard. New York: Harper and Row. $4.95 (pa.) In Living by Fiction Annie Dillard further extends the boundaries of her world, a process undertaken in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and continued...
- 10From:First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public LifeFOR THE TIME BEING. By ANNIE DILLARD. Knopf. 205 pp. $22. Annie Dillard's writing is a valuable attempt to cut us loose from a complacent acceptance of life's enigmas. In For The Time Being, Dillard tries to shed...
- 11From:TLS. Times Literary Supplement (Issue 5949)Annie Dillard THE ABUNDANCE Narrative essays old and new 304pp. Canongate. 14.99 [pounds sterling] (US $25.99). 978 1 78211 771 1 Annie Dillard is not a nature writer, as it's often said. The Pittsburgh-born...
- 12From:CrossCurrents (Vol. 50, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWith Jesus, it's not always suffering and passion. He's also the kind of savior that can make you laugh. The contemporary West's major spiritual problem is distractedness. Our modes of communal distraction have...