The book I'm working on now is tentatively titled An Experiment in Desire. It's both a memoir of my own experiment in making three very different wishes come true, and it's an exploration of the ancient human art of wishing. ... Having been raised as a Catholic and then discovered Buddhism as a young adult, I'm very oriented toward accepting the reality of suffering and then seeking to transcend it through spiritual realization. The idea of making a quasi-spiritual practice of wishing for concrete, tangible things in your life is quite foreign to me. Of course, this supplies a certain dramatic tension for the book -- but it also means that I'm fighting my own resistance much of the time.
Friday, April 07, 2006
What are you working on? : Noelle Oxenhandler
Just posted in my series of interviews with writers, New Yorker writer and essayist Noelle Oxenhandler, whose latest project is about three wishes.
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