Robert McNamaraA Thousand Days of WalkingThis morning I took a four-mile walk. And that means what began as a 30-day challenge in February 2019 has now happened 33 1/3 times. Today…Nov 6, 20211Nov 6, 20211
Robert McNamaraRemembering Seamus HeaneyI attended a reading by Seamus Heaney 25 years ago in New York City and I brought along my copy of Poems: 1965–1975, hoping to have him…Aug 30, 2016Aug 30, 2016
Robert McNamaraRemembering d. boonIn my youth I spent a few years working at a music magazine. That was my grad school, and I learned a lot slogging away in the Rolling…Dec 22, 2015Dec 22, 2015
Robert McNamaraJerry Garcia’s Very Good Book AdviceWhen Jerry Garcia died 20 years ago I wrote this remembrance of him. It first appeared in Not Fade Away, a 1995 anthology of Garcia…Aug 5, 2015Aug 5, 2015
Robert McNamaraJohn Lewis: The Books In His KnapsackThe Civil Rights legend, in a 1998 conversation, recalled the books he carried with him that day in Selma.Mar 2, 2015Mar 2, 2015
Robert McNamaraFacing Slavery’s AdsLooking In Forgotten Corners of American NewspapersFeb 16, 2015Feb 16, 2015