Have just packed my bags and am heading out the door, sayonara to the great cold state of North Dakota. At dinner last night I sat next to Mary Gaitskill, author of Veronica–in my mind one of the best five books of fiction the past couple of years. She’s a lovely person, warm and funny and as vividly smart in conversation as she is in her books. I also got to talk to the poet Leslie Adrienne Miller, with whom I comisserated on motherhood, and had the opportunity to hear her read from The Resurrection Trade, a startling and...
Monthly Archives: March 2007
Writing on the Body
Blogging from North Dakota, where I’m participating in the Writing on the Body conference. I was on a panel, “The Metaphorical Body,” yesterday with poets Miller Williams and Li-Young Li, and artist Anne Harris. I loved sitting back and listening to Williams, who was thoughtful and eloquent, and who, in addition to his own achievements as a poet, made the world a better place by siring Lucinda Williams. I got to talk with him and his wife, Jordan, at length during lunch after the panel, and was reminded of one of the nicer things about Arkansas–nameliness, the genuine kindness...
Here’s to you: big love from the tundra
When I was a kid, my mom was big on ritual. Every event–from the loss of a tooth to a birthday–was celebrated. It’s still in my genes. I like to honor significant days with hooplah. Today is the official publication date of THE YEAR OF FOG, but this morning I left San Francisco for North Dakota. Now it’s 7 p.m. Pacific time and I’m at the airport in Minneapolis, at the tail end of a four-hour layover to Grand Forks. In lieu of a champagne and spa day, I settled for a World Club day pass. If you’re not...
Marin Magazine
Samantha Berry interviewed me for the April issue of Marin Magazine, on stands now.
Year of Fog in the Washington Post
THE YEAR OF FOG received an “A” today from the Washington Post in the Media Mix feature, its bite-sized listing of upcoming books and movies. It’s been a long time since I’ve been graded. I remember something about getting a B in graduate school in a class where all we had to do was watch movies. And slipping through a college algebra course at the University of Alabama, circa 1989, in a late-in-the-semester plea to the professor, who, upon hearing that I’d put all my eggs in the English and creative writing baskets and hadn’t much of a head...
The international bestseller about one woman’s search for a missing child…
"Mesmerizing." ~Library Journal, starred review.
Stop dreaming, start writing!
