Reads tagged with “Bill Hayes”
Working Out, Working In: Applying the Six Principles of Athletic Training to Writing and Creative Work
Swimming as the Poetry of the Body
In praise of the exquisite instrument that channels “the huge chaos of sensations — sensations of temperature, water, force, light.”
Stephen Jay Gould’s Charming Poem for Oliver Sacks’s Birthday, Read by Bill Hayes
In loving praise of “this man, who’s in love with a cycad but once could have starred in a bike ad.”
Inside Oliver Sacks’s Creative Process: The Beloved Writer’s Never-Before-Seen Manuscripts, Brainstorm Sheets, and Notes on Writing, Creativity, and the Brain
Inside the “buzzing, blooming chaos” of a brilliant mind at work.
Sleep Demons: Bill Hayes on REM, the Poetics of Yawns, and Maurice Sendak’s Antidote to Insomnia
“Sleep acts … more like an emotion than a bodily function. As with desire, it resists pursuit. Sleep must come find you.”
Favorite Books of 2022
From Rumi to Blake to Nick Cave, by way of trees, hummingbirds, grief, and music.
The Science of Working Out the Body and the Soul: How the Art of Exercise Was Born, Lost, and Rediscovered
“A history of exercise is not really — or certainly not only — a history of the body. It is, equally, perhaps even primarily, a history of the mind.”
How New York Breaks Your Heart: A Photographic Elegy for the City of Electric Beauty with an Edge of Sorrow
“First, it lets you fall in love with it…”
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