A father, a son, and the alphabet. (via CrookedHouse)
One day I was punching holes with a hole puncher into a stack of paper, and I thought of a bookworm and so I created a story called “A Week with Willi the Worm”. Then my editor suggested a caterpillar instead and I said “Butterfly!” That’s how it began.
Friday was the Very Hungry Caterpillar‘s 40th birthday! School Gate celebrates with an interview, and Google celebrates with a festive logo.
How to write a sentence like David Foster Wallace. Don’t read IF YOU ARE A MINIMALIST, WRITING COACH, OR JAMES WOOD.
Annie Fitch wrote a nice piece for the Poetry Foundation on the art of listening. (via Silliman’s blog)
Seamus Heaney won the David Cohen prize for lifetime excellence, and chose two poems to summarize his career, which sounds like an impossible task. You can hear him read “The Underground” at the Poetry Archive.