“Advice and instruction have always fascinated me, partly because of their pathos—so little is transmitted in any given instance of advice or pedagogy.”

Of all the notes, scraps and scribbles
Crushed in my fist for oblivion's food
(Not to spare the name of God—

When physical fitness meets the literary life.Young people are a mess. They eat the crappiest fast food, make a point of drinking only to excess, barely sleep, indulge in all sorts of chemicals—and yet, given even a modicum of activity, their bodie…