And so I’ll begin with a question or a series of questions. The asking of these questions will, I hope, give you an indication of what I’m up to with this second blog, Loving Iris.
1. Do you have a writer you love so much you wouldn’t mind spending the rest of your life reading/thinking/writing about her/him? (not to the exclusion of other writers necessarily, but as your sort of main “squeeze”)? And what makes this writer seem inexhaustible to you?
2. Do you have a writer whose questions are your questions? whose answers are your answers?
3. Do you have a writer whose entire oeuvre you’ve read? (okay 90%) and you’ve loved every bit of it (even the stinkers, the ones that miss the mark, that don’t do him/her justice?)
4. Do you have a writer whose work you’d defend to the death? regardless of literary climate change, declined or increased readership, critical raves or brush-offs?
5. Do you have a writer about whom you believe the following to be true? — if you could figure out why you love her so much and what it is you “get” from her, you would know at last (or at least a great deal about) who you are.
