Tag: Richard Ford

• The View From Thirty Thousand Feet

  A retrospective consideration of my intentions in writing At the Edge of the Solid World.

  Daniel Davis Wood

  January 18, 2020

  At the Edge of the Solid World, On Writing

  Ian McEwan, John Updike, Richard Ford, Richard Yates, Tim Winton, Virginia Woolf

• Two Thoughts on Thinking Athletes

  Bismarck’s epigram about diplomacy and sausage applies also to the way we Americans seem to feel about professional athletes. We revere athletic excellence, competitive success. And it’s more than attention we pay; we vote with our wallets. We’ll spend large sums to watch a truly great athlete; we’ll reward him with celebrity and adulation and…

  Daniel Davis Wood

  June 22, 2011

  American Literature, Fragments

  David Foster Wallace, Richard Ford