by Cristina Cordova
posted on May. 01, 2008 - 12:38pm
by Jeannine Ouellette
posted on Feb. 21, 2003 - 1:00am
Louise Erdrich is fighting sleep. This explains a lot.
It’s said that the threshold between sleeping and waking—the lucid yet lawless terrain of twilight—is a cracked door to enlightenment, a conduit to the divine. How apropos that, here in the grainy borderlands of consciousness, the Minneapolis novelist puts pen to paper and struggles (yes, struggles) to write. Writing becomes a talisman against sleep, as she strings one word after the next simply to stay awake.