October 4, 2008

life is meals

“Life is weather.  Life is meals. Lunches on a blue checked cloth on which salt has spilled.
The smell of tobacco.  Brie, yellow apples, wood-handled knives.”
James Salter, in one of my all-time favorite books, Light Years.
I met James Salter in Portland in July of 2004, and I asked him why he didn’t write another book on marriage.  Referring [...]

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