High Praise for — and a Few Lessons From — Diane Ackerman
September 20, 2011 at 10:25 am Lori Shontz Leave a comment
Like a lot of writers, I read both as a reader (for pleasure) and as a writer (to figure out how other writers do it). So when I came across this interview with Diane Ackerman, whose latest book, One Hundred Names for Love, we excerpted in our July/August issue, I was psyched.
Interviewer Roy Peter Clark of the Poynter Institute is an Ackerman fan, too; he thinks One Hundred Names for Love is better than Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking, which won a National Book Award. (I loved that book, too.) Clark extracted a lot of interesting nuggets about Ackerman’s writing process, including this description of her writing space: “Shelves of white three-ring folders, labeled and organized, some filing cabinets, overflowing bookcases, big windows with a view of the backyard and woods, and a bay window to curl up and write in, one that looks out onto the garden and a big old magnolia tree.”
Somehow, that’s exactly how I imagined it.
Lori Shontz, senior editor
Entry filed under: College of the Liberal Arts, The Penn Stater magazine. Tags: Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love, Roy Peter Clark.
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