Author Archives: Brenda Miller

Today I happened to glance at my bookshelf, and Twyla Tharpe’s book, The Creative Habit, leapt out at me (it’s that kind of book. It leaps). Twyla Tharpe is a world-renowned choreographer, and in this book she explores—often through metaphors of dance—the … Continue reading →

“Essays end up in books, but they start their lives in magazines.  (It’s hard to imagine a book of recent but previously unpublished essays.)….The influential essayist is someone with an acute sense of what has not been (properly) talked about, … Continue reading →