Monthly Archives: January 2016

On (academically) writing about the “most literary of sports”

… Young people often ask, “How does one become a writer?” My answer is always simply: “By writing.” Writing is like experience: if you don’t experience things, then you won’t understand life; and if you don’t write, then you won’t know what you’re capable of creating. Yu Hua, China in Ten Words Mountaineering is often described…