Peter Matthiessen, R. I. P.

Peter Matthiessen died. His writing, particularly The Snow Leopard, made a big impression on me. And some early explorations I took in The Paris Review opened my eyes to a different kind of world, a literary world, that was interesting, challenging, provocative, and humanistic. To me, Peter Matthiessen is someone to learn from and to some extent, pattern after.  Thank you Peter.

New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/magazine/peter-matthiessens-homegoing.html
[image thanks to New York Times]


Here is more good writing about Peter:
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/10/29/Seniority/An_examined_life_wort.shtml

Kerouac on writing, per BrainPicker

I was a Kerouac fan from early on, and growing up not that far from Lowell added to my enthusiasm.  But I never found this before, thanks much to Maria Popova @brainpicker.  Its about writing, but its about a lot more than that, seems to me.

See: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/03/22/jack-kerouac-belief-and-technique-for-modern-prose/