From Summer 1994 Explore This Issue on Following the Brush: An American Encounter with Classical Japanese Culture by John Elder By Steve Kronen From the Summer 1994 Issue ← How Others Have Lived Here (on When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmerelda Santiago; Devotion: A Memoir by Miriam Levine; Edge Effects: Notes from an Oregon Forest by Chris Anderson; & Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World by Scott Russell Sanders) → on Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction, and Other Dilemmas in the Writer’s Life by Bonnie Friedman