HeyJaredThe Fool and the Queen
Fortnightly thoughts on life and writing – and the peculiar experience of being female in my fifties.
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Feeling loony: the Moon, Annie Dillard and Practical Magic gone wrong (opens the original)
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Dear Fools and Queens,I meant to write about The Moon in tarot, and how I’m feeling loony (as usual), but the great American writer Annie Dillard died last week and the news sent me back to her.I kept hoping she might surprise us with another book but she went quiet twenty-odd years ago after her novel The Maytrees (2007), with some commentators wondering if she’d said everything she could possibly say; that having seen the face of god in nature – had her <a href="https://www.theatla
Back at heartbreak hotel (opens the original)
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