The Joys of Not Finishing
Our impulse as writers is to attempt to salvage the words, to make good on the promise we made to ourselves when we penned the very first line
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Strangers’ Photographs
…so much of my own buried past comes to surface unexpectedly when I’m reading a book, and I often find myself pausing and marking the page with my finger while I stare off into space, remembering
Joshilyn Jackson, in the carpool lane
Roxanne Ravenel over at All Things Girl conducted a wonderful two-part interview with Joshilyn Jackson, whose new novel, Backseat Saints, will surely satisfy her fans and earn her many new ones. Joshilyn talks about her love-hate relationship with the South (“I am truly happy nowhere else, and yet I am angry with it, so I …
Jose Saramago quits blogging
The AFP reports that Nobel prize-winning author Jose Saramago, known for his haunting novel Blindness, will say goodbye to the blog that he began writing last September. Why? He needs to finish his novel. Saramago was 85 when he started the blog with a love letter to Lisbon. In his last blog entry, Saramago writes: …