Big thanks to my hometown paper, the Mobile Press Register, for the nod.
Category: Personal
Goodbye, with love, John Hughes
I just heard the news that John Hughes has died. For those of us who came of age in the eighties, his name means more than the movies. It brings back a whole slew of memories: names of boys and girls we knew, and places they took us, and the things we did and didn’t…Continue reading Goodbye, with love, John Hughes
Readings for Writers
The Kenyon Review has just published a new anthology of work culled from the magazine over the past seventy years. Editor David Lynn writes: Readings for Writers is a very different creature from your usual anthology…A different principle of selection comes into play: choosing stories, poems, and essays from across the decades to provoke lively…Continue reading Readings for Writers
Literary Death Match tonight
If you think writers are full of it, this is the event to attend, because rarely does the evening end without at least one writer suffering some form of public humiliation. Tonight, I just hope it’s not me. To read more about the format and the chilling Death Match finale, go here. Tonight’s Literary Death…Continue reading Literary Death Match tonight
Briefly in Britain
The current issue of UK’s Star Magazine features No One You Know, and gives it four (out of five) stars. Gotta love British brevity. The review in its entirety reads: When Lila is violently murdered, her sister Ellie doesn’t know where to turn. Years later, off the beaten track in Nicaragua, she meets the man…Continue reading Briefly in Britain