Eli S. Evans: Is That It

At first I thought they were talking about India Pale Ale...

a dozen oysters a lemon a loaf of bread...

Books in their physical form turn out to be endlessly adaptable, not just in the domestic space as doorstops...

Most of the books in my collection predate barcodes and current ISBN formats...

I don’t want to write about Watt this morning. I want to write about what...

Two men are dead in a cabin on the side of a mountain — how did they die?

A redwood can live forever...

The outfielders adept at prose. At third base and first, essayists. At shortstop and second base, poets...

Unleashed on social networks, the first sentence becomes a sign of recognition, a knowing wink, a cabalistic sign between insiders...

The writing temperament comes to light as a condition of being. If there was a point, it was learning to read...

One muses on tactile fabrics as over leaves...

I want some book-buyers to come forward and at any rate state that they have bought a book, with some account of the adventure...

Books always give us something different than expected...

A few years after The Waste Land appeared, Torquemada pioneered the cryptic crossword...

On or about December 1910 human character changed...

The foundation of good fiction is character-creating, and nothing else...