Anecdotal Evidence

A blog about the intersection of books and life.

Sunday, June 28, 2026

'A Terrible Thing, Time, Nevertheless'

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“With all his gifts, he had of imagination not one spark. Fancy and wit he had in his earlier work; and grace he never lost; but for the res...
Saturday, June 27, 2026

'Those Irritants That Get Into Our Shoes and Sting'

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Yet again, an English word surprises me with its multiple meanings. A reader complimented the “scruples” I apply to writing. I thought I kne...
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Friday, June 26, 2026

'Nearly Silent. Knowing.'

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R.L. Barth has sent me a copy of his first book, Forced-Marching to the Styx: Vietnam War Poems , a chapbook of twenty-one poems published b...
Thursday, June 25, 2026

'A Few Good Sentences'

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Much of my working life was spent among writers indifferent to the precision, clarity and stylishness of what they wrote. They flung words o...
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

'Time, We Both Know, Will Decay You'

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An old friend, just months older than me, is taking longevity hard. We’re not that old – he just turned seventy-four, I’m still seventy-thr...
Tuesday, June 23, 2026

'An Absurd Depravity'

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While reading Sir Thomas Browne again it occurred to me that an epidemic of envy seems to be loose in the land. Envy is an emotion I like to...
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Monday, June 22, 2026

'Bearing His Hard and Chambered Hurt'

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Nearly forty years ago I drove to Beaversprite , a nature reserve near Dolgeville in upstate New York, in the foothills of the Adirondacks, ...
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