Looking TogetherThe relationship between writers and artists has long been a collaborative one. Plato used the word ekphrasis to describe what happens when a writer writes creatively, as opposed to critically, about art. Gertrude Stein claimed that her innovative writing style was inspired by the paintings of Czanne and then went on to tell Hemingway to study Czanne if he wanted to learn to write. In Looking Together, a dozen writers working in a range of styles and