When I formed my new band I was tempted to invite all sorts of musicians to join and create a more layered and intricate sound but in the end I kept it stripped-down and simple, concluding that we’d be at our most dynamic and effective if we remained a trio.
My latest piece:
"Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom — poets, visionaries — realists of a larger reality."
--Ursula K. Le Guin
One thing I didn't point out here, but is well worth pointing out: Currently, our academic system (which is supposed be a meritocracy) has far fewer ways to measure things like "aesthetics" or "intuitions." Therefore, potential great scientists get passed over for more competent grade grinders.
Hey, I’m going to moderate a panel on writing identity at this Magazine symposium on May 3d. Sign up…