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:) From "The Seductions of Storytelling" (*The New Yorker*, June 24 & July 1, 1996, pp. 11-12): "Story means pleasure, as distinct from art; it would rather gratify than edify. But stories also protect us from chaos, and maybe that's what we, unblinkered at the end of the twentieth century, find ourselves craving. Implicit in the extraordinary revival of storytelling is the possibility that we need stories--that they are a fundamental unit of knowledge, the foundation of memory, essential to the way we make sense of our lives: the beginning, middle, and end of our personal and collective trajectories. It is possible that narrative is as important to writing as the human body is to representatioinal painting. We have returned to narratives--in many fields of knowledge--because it is impossible to live without them." --Bill Buford :) From "A Storybook Approach to Therapy" (USA Today, Wednesday, Feb 14, 1996: 9D): "Taking stock of experiences--All of us relate 'stock' stories about ourselves. To discern yours, Mandy Aftel [psychotherapist and author of *The Story of Your Life: Becoming the Author of Your Own Experience*] suggests writing one paragraph of personal information you might tell each of these folks at a first meeting. Compare the versions. Talk to: +A potential mate. +Someone you would like to work for. +Someone you'd like to have work for you. +A psychotherapist." :( From "The Woe That Is in Marriage" *The New Yorker* (May 13, 1996: 93-4) by Vijay Seshadri: "Although [Louise] Gluck is still in the middle of her career, it's clear that she is one of those poets--like Yeats, for example, and unlike Stevens--whose writing is provoked by their unfolding temporal life . . . the earthiness that she displays and the newfound willingness to let her readers enter the honey-combed quotidian life out of which her poetry is written . . . is a brave gesture on her part, and it reflects a supremely rewarded poetic self-confidence."
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