I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.
Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.
I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.
Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation.
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.