In his coronavirus diary, Alexander McCall Smith, author of the 'No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency' series, writes choral lyrics, listens to Evelyn Waugh audiobooks, and reads an abbot's advice on monastic living.
Cynthia Ozick, essayist and acclaimed novelist, shelters from coronavirus and discusses anti-Semitism, the Spanish flu and longevity.An early start, as the days in our latitude are getting longer. Here, in Edinburgh, we are a touch from 56 degrees north . So it is not hard to get up at five in the morning as, even now, the sky is beginning to lighten then. Of course, in midsummer it will barely get dark at night, and it is possible to read outside at 11 pm.
series by the end of May. I find it comforting to be in the fictional world of Mma Ramotswe, where normal human association is permitted, and there is talk of things other than the virus. The title of this book is “How to Raise an Elephant,” and it was inspired, in part, by a remarkable Dallas-based charity that does just that. But “How to Raise an Elephant” also serves as a metaphor for the challenge of looking after people.Poet W.H. Auden reads a newspaper on Fire Island, New York.
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