If you use your difficulties to create art, says Ruth Ozeki, it will give them meaning.
About Ruth Ozeki
About a Poem: Ruth Ozeki on Ono no Komachi
Ono no Komachi as an old woman, woodcut by Tsukioka YoshitoshiHow do we remember a woman’s life? Can we piece her together from a few lines of poetry?
Confessions of a Zen Novelist
Photos by Kris KrugWhen bestselling author Ruth Ozeki becomes a Zen priest, she finds out Zen and novel writing do not easily go hand in hand.
The Writer’s Way
Ruth Ozeki reviews “Writing as Enlightenment: Buddhist American Literature Into the Twenty-First Century”.
About a Poem: Taha Muhammad Ali’s “Revenge”
Photo by practicalowl.At times … I wish / I could meet in a duel / the man who killed my father
The Art of Losing
Ruth L. Ozeki’s touching memoir is also a profound meditation on love, stories, and the difference between losing and letting go.
My Year of Meats
Mirroring the journey of her novel’s heroine, Ruth Ozeki explored meat and media and discovered that writing is always political and denial always a choice. What’s in a Name? Last year my first novel was published. It’s called My Year of Meats. It’s a good title, I think. A funny title. A little proud, a […]