QUOTE OF THE DAY

On the Bestselling Novelist Who Wrote ‘Blind’

He shut his eyes and pulled a wool stocking cap over them so he couldn’t see what he wrote

Like Bill Murray in “The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou,” Kent Haruf worked in a stocking cap / Credit: Touchtone Pictures

The Pulitzer judges don’t give a prize for “The Most Bizarre Writing Ritual That Actually Worked for a Celebrated Author.”