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A big shout-out to my old friend Kim Shirley’s journalism students at Bishop McGuinness High School in Oklahoma City. I saw your comments and am delighted that you’re checking out my work. Best of luck to all of you with your writing, and say hello to Kim for me. She was my absolute best friend …
There’s a great piece up on Green Apple Core, the blog of San Francisco’s wonderful Green Apple Books, about book stores, of the real and browsable variety, crotchety proprietors, dusty shelves, and all; and about a certain revered Parisian bookstore where you might find yourself spending the night, in exchange for a few hours shelving …
I heart the Mounties and their reading cousins. The Year of Fog is the November Book of the Month for Walmart stores across Canada. This brings me back to my (exceedingly brief) Arkansas days, when a good-looking fellow from San Francisco and I taught creative writing to kids in rural schools through a program called Writers …