I write about things that interest me. I also write to find out what I think (yes, it’s a cliché, but it’s also a truism).

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Why Literary Lifelines?

In August 2008, the New York Times published an article titled, “In Strangers, Centenarian Finds Literary Lifeline” — you can read it here. It was about “… a ragtag crew that cycles through the worn one-bedroom Murray Hill walk-up where Elizabeth Goodyear, who recently celebrated her 101st birthday, is confined after two knee operations. A lifelong lover of books, Ms. Goodyear lost her sight about four years ago, but in its place has acquired a roster of readers who stop by regularly, bringing with them dogs, gifts from their international travels and offerings of dark chocolate, the elixir she has savored daily since she was 3.”

What this article made me think of was how books — not just books, but poems, too, and stories, articles, words themselves — how they “save” people in so many ways. I wanted to write about that, and, also, to show how certain books had affected me. My idea was not to review books, but to explain their personal relevance.

For a brief period, I had a site devoted only to Literary Lifelines, but I’m interested in so many things and didn’t want to limit myself to writing solely about books. I’ve closed that site, migrating the writings that “lived” there to here, their new home.