Why We All Should Have a “Good Art Friend”
His memoir began when he was a child, watching his father die young. Mine started when my young children learned their father died by suicide. We were drawn to each other’s perspectives, thought they could inform our own. In a writing class, students often make alliances such as these, friendships based on narrative bonds and […]
Playing With Time: On the Art of Imagining in Alan Lightman’s Einstein’s Dreams
I first read Einstein’s Dreams in 1993, very shortly after it was published. The author, Alan Lightman, is a physicist at MIT whose writings have illuminated the intersection of science and the humanities. Einstein’s Dreams , his first work of fiction, explores the variety of dream scenarios that Albert Einstein might have dreamed in the […]