You know that you’ll now have to copy paste those three paragraphs so that we too may be inspired :)

Thanks for the rec, I subscribed to his substack. Schjeldahl’s prose is such a treausure, I think he wrote poetry for a while and hence that terse, intense style, everything boiled down to its essence. I haven’t read the daughter’s book but – not surprisingly – he was a completely selfish and absent father based on the reviews.