'Writing Is a Dog's Life' and Other Thoughts

A portrait of poet Anna Akhmatova by the Ukrainian-French avant-garde painter and book illustrator Nathan Altman

‘Writing is a dog’s life, but the only one worth living,’ says Gustave Flaubert.

And while I would agree with him any other day, today is different. Today, this dog is not writing. I cannot even muster the energy or the will to get out of bed,…