Triage: On Reading, Writing, and the Interior Life

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls

One of the most valuable spaces for an artist is the inner life-the sacred place where, outside of the constraints of time and space, meaning is extracted from raw experience and fashioned into art. In this timely new essay, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo discusses the work writers do as they sift through experience and work to cultivate rich interior lives. For authors, this often involves performing triage, a constant asse...