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Category: Ephemera
You need a chiller
Holy smokes, The Year of Fog headlines The Daily Mail’s list of sizzling summer reads. I’m in swelteringly good company with Ian McEwan’s Solar, Barbara Kingsolver’s The Lacuna, and Harlan Coben’s Caught. The British edition just came out last week. (In England, No One You Know came first.) It’s fun to see The Year of…Continue reading You need a chiller
This one goes out to Sally in Minnesota
Over at Pause, Sally Howell Johnson writes beautifully about her reaction to the boxes of photographs in antique stores, the false sense of beauty or perfection created by digital photography, and a quirky family tradition. But the one thing I cannot bring myself to look at in these stores are the boxes of old photographs.…Continue reading This one goes out to Sally in Minnesota
Making it True
E.B. Davis on “Writers Who Kill” weaves two of his recent reading experiences, along with the story of his first published fiction, into an interesting mini-essay about what it means to be an authentic writer. Congratulations to Davis on the publication, and thanks for the nod! I’ve written for years. At first, I hesitated to…Continue reading Making it True
Before the oil, there was jubilee
Last Friday night, in the town of Monroeville, AL, birthplace of Harper Lee, I found myself sitting beneath the stars on the lawn of the old courthouse, watching a wonderful local performance of To Kill a Mockingbird. At a reception following the play, at a lovely bookstore and cafe called The Bee Hive, I met…Continue reading Before the oil, there was jubilee