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What Was I Thinking?
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Literary CriticismWriting Instruction
Publisher: Windless Place
Published: Oct 6 2026
Pages: 340
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
These bite-size essays are a distillation of what I've been thinking about-and writing about-for the last twenty years. Originally published as posts, the entries in What Was I Thinking? combine what I hope are both post energy and essay reflection. I describe my writing life and my reading life, as well as expressing my opinion on such subjects as politics, the pandemic, and all things literary and cultural-topics that have been and remain important to me. I've put the entries into relevant categories so that they can be snacked on by subject or sampled one bite at a time.
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