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Lewis Hyde and The Blessed Labor of the Imagination

January 26, 2009 by Paula Panich

Two months ago an article appeared in the New York Times Magazine, delivering, on that chilly Sunday morning, a bit of a shock. Titled, “What is Art For?”, the piece, by Daniel B. Smith, is a survey of the thought and work of the poet, essayist, and thinker Lewis Hyde.It felt to me as a […]

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ABOUT PAULA PANICH

Paula Panich is a Los Angeles-based food, garden, and landscape writer and teacher who has contributed to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Gastronomica and other publications. She is author of Cultivating Words: The Guide to Writing about the Plants and Gardens You Love, and other books. Her latest, The Cook, the Landlord, the Countess and Her Lover, is a collection of memoir-ish culinary essays. Her literary work, including fiction, has been published in the Harvard Review, the North American Review, and on writing disorder, an online literary journal. She has taught writing workshops from the New York Botanical Garden to the Getty Center, and at Boston University and the UCLA Ext. Landscape Architecture Program.

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