"They slept together, back to belly, like a pair of turtledoves or a pair of spoons. They were used to each other, at ease with each other, and wondered if the Platonic ideala shadow-selfhad come to be embodied in their love."
Nicholas Delbanco is the author of more than thirty works of fiction and nonfiction. His most recent novel is It Is Enough (Dalkey Archive Press, 2020) and his most recent work of nonfiction is Why Writing Matters (Yale University Press, 2020). Together with the late John Gardner, he is the founding director of the Bennington Writing Workshops. The Robert Frost Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Michigan, he directed the MFA Program in Creative Writing and the Hopwood Awards Program there from 1985 to 2015.