Rereading old favorites20120501115400
Rereading old favorites
May 1, 20120 comments
Breathing Lessons, Anne Tyler I recently returned to Anne Tyler’s Breathing Lessons, wanting to see what affected me so much the first time I read it ...
Quote of the day20120423090800
Quote of the day
April 23, 20122 comments
On slow writing “It takes me a long time, usually years, to finish something, even a short story. I worked on the story “Bringing Belle Home” fr...
Books I missed the first time around20120419094100
Books I missed the first time around
April 19, 20120 comments
Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson, 1980 Speaking of the Pulitzers, Marilynne Robinson’s first novel, Housekeeping,was a finalist for the Pulitzer, and ...
The ReviewReview20120224172600
The ReviewReview
February 24, 20120 comments
I have another literary-magazine review in TheReviewReview. This time, I reviewed the online journal Prime Number....
Failure20111020115700
Failure
October 20, 20110 comments
I took a break from my WIP today, and spent the morning working on a short story. I’d already written fifteen pages or so about this char...