The Gardens of Kyoto
Just finished a superb novel, The Gardens of Kyoto by Kate Walbert. It was such a satisfying, lyrically smart, rich, engaging, and compelling read. One of those novels you close with a sigh and hope you remember to find the time to read one day again.
This passage particularly spoke to me, seemed to offer up advice about finding audience for our writing, locating and focusing on your own particular someone, out there listening, no matter if imagined, living or dead:
"There was only one thing Randall insisted I remember about the art of dramatic presentation. It was the first rule of thumb, what I would have to understand if I were going to understand anything at all. You speak, he told me, to an audience of one—a solitary listener to whom you direct your presentation, to whom you project your voice in the telling; a person whom you picture as you confide."
