... if proof were needed, that Dwight Garner
"a book critic" (his employer's nomenclature) for the New York Times, leads a
charmed life.
I suspect that for readers of this blog, the
connections between walking, writing and reading don't need much explication, and
here is Dwight, earlier this year, writing in the Times, and making a
persuasive case for audio books.
He writes, “Keep an audio book or two on your
iPhone. Periodically I take the largest of my family’s dogs on long walks, and
I stick my iPhone in my shirt pocket, its tiny speaker facing up. I’ve listened
to Saul Bellow’s “Herzog” this way. The shirt pocket method is better than
using ear buds, which block out the natural world. My wife tucks her phone into
her bra, on long walks, and listens to Dickens novels. I find this unbearably
sexy.”
Above is a picture of the wife in question, Cree
LeFavour. No sign of audiobook, nor bra
for that matter.
