D. Graham Burnett

Sep 24, 2024 | laphamsquarterly.org | John Crowley |Daniel Mason |D. Graham Burnett |Garret Keizer

Devil or angel, I can’t make up my mind Which one you are I’d like to wake up and find —Blanche Carter, “Devil or Angel,” 19551. The Wool-Sweater ProblemIn the spring of 1968, Cyrena Pondrom, an English professor at the University of Wisconsin, held a series of conversations with the novelist and story writer Isaac Bashevis Singer. The questions were wide-ranging, and so were the answers.

Sep 12, 2024 | dailyprincetonian.com | D. Graham Burnett |Peter Schmidt

Welcome back to campus! Got your classes sorted out? It’s time to gear up for another semester of school — a place to teach and learn and play and think and change.

Jul 22, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | D. Graham Burnett

I We can imagine things—“see” them inside our minds. This is a very natural and common thing, but if one stops and thinks about it for a moment, it is also a somewhat peculiar—even paradoxical—activity/phenomenon. One can run a few simple introspective experiments that highlight some of the weirdness of the “images” (or whatever they are) inside our heads.

Jun 27, 2024 | cabinetmagazine.org | D. Graham Burnett

D. Graham Burnett“You won’t believe what just happened. I was standing out there, getting ready to stride toward the ball, when a strange feeling came over me. I was looking right at the football. It was up on the tee. I was standing ten yards away, looking right at it, waiting for the whistle so I could make my approach, and that’s when I got this strange insight. I wish I could describe it, Gary, but it was too wild, too unbelievable. It was too everything, man.

Mar 30, 2024 | laphamsquarterly.org | Richard Selzer |John Crowley |D. Graham Burnett

After more than thirty-five years teaching and practicing surgery at Yale University, Richard Selzer has for the last two decades pursued a second career as a writer of fiction and nonfiction, drawing on his long experience in medicine for the body of his work. Among his fifteen books are Mortal Lessons and The Doctor Stories, and two released this year, Knife Song Korea and Letters to a Best Friend, the latter a collection of letters with Peter Josyph.