One of the challenges of living at my retirement center is keeping up with the reading recommendations of fellow inmates.  My list is long and growing. Nonetheless, when I heard about an article on brain tumor surgery, one that obliges a patient to remain awake while the surgeon saws

As I read the latest edition of The New Republic which featured remarks about three writers — FranzKafka,  Karl Ove Knausgaard and Virginia Woolf — I concluded they all agreed that writing is work.  Kafka struggled deep into the night so that he might labor without distr