Nothing in my life has been more rewarding than reading books from the canon

Last week I was in Baltimore, giving a reading at Johns Hopkins, where I got my MFA. Although I was sort of dreading it--I don't know, I wasn't really sure what I had to talk about with my old professors--I actually had a great time! In fact, one of the things that I found most charming, as I interacted with people from the Writing Seminars, was the mus…