"Life, gathering," reads one full sentence in his ferocious and lyrical new novel, "The Surrendered," and you couldn't ask for a better two-word description of what good fiction aspires to.
They also produced the Baker Street Journal, a hybrid zine, halfway between scholarly research and pure fandom and at gatherings read their own versions of stories they'd written themselves.
They are more likely to list family gatherings, reading and volunteering as favorite pastimes, while S.U.V. buyers are more likely to enjoy camping trips, hunting, going to sporting events and home repair projects.
We are gathering information, reading more foreign language periodicals, and Internet sites are being examined -- that sort of thing.
For more about why we need a social gathering app, read my feature story "The Quest To Cure Loneliness".
The statements were plastered on bulletin boards outside the shrine and on the pillars of the shopping arcade along the main streets -- men eagerly gathering around to read the first reaction from their spiritual guides.
I had been working on it for a few weeks, just gathering some reading material, when the September 11th attacks happened.
I am reading private papers, gathering photographs and permissions, reading and rereading published texts.
After gathering information by reading official documents, talking to the offender's family, and if possible visiting the offender in prison, comes what Hosseini describes as the "very difficult and complicated" task of approaching the victim's family to seek a pardon.
About a month before my friend Ohio Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones passed away last August, she spoke before a large student gathering and prophetically read the words of Bernice Johnson Regan: "The older I get the better I know that the secret of my going on," she said, "is when the reins are in the hands of the young, who dare to run against the storm".
