workshops – Orangette https://orangette.net Wed, 16 Dec 2015 22:15:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 While the house is quiet https://orangette.net/2015/03/while-the-house-is-quiet/ https://orangette.net/2015/03/while-the-house-is-quiet/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2015 23:52:00 +0000 https://elitemporaryblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/03/while-the-house-is-quiet Today is our Sunday, and everyone but me is napping, sleepy after a lunch of cheese toast and cucumber salad. While the house is quiet, I should probably be doing tax paperwork and résumé reading and other sacred rituals of small business ownership, but: – I’ve never felt confident about picking favorites: my favorite movie, favorite song, favorite food, favorite whatever. I don’t have many favorite anything. But I do feel confident about saying this: Michael Chabon is my favorite novelist. His first novel The Mysteries of Pittsburgh has been my favorite book for two decades, since I first read it at sixteen years old. He also wrote The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, which won a Pulitzer Prize,…

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