Read By: Luis Alberto Urrea
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Luis Alberto Urrea on his selection:
Annie Dillard\\u2019s books came to me in one of those writerly seasons of transition. I could dip into any of her first volumes and get lost. It\\u2019s the way she conflates what some people call \\u201cnature writing\\u201d with philosophical depths at play, with sudden bursts of homespun vernacular and finally what can only be a kind of theological verve. She is one of the masters who pushes me into a new way of seeing.
In "Living Like Weasels," Annie Dillard is telling us how savage and sacred our moments of life, how fleeting. She is reminding us to live all of our moments ferociously. I think that is the perfect message for all of us right now.
Teaching a Stone to Talk at Bookshop.org
Music: "Shift of Currents" by Blue Dot Sessions // CC BY-NC 2.0
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