


DEAD BECKONING Book Signing – April 30th – Book Bound Bookstore
I am delighted and honored to announce that I will be signing copies of DEAD BECKONING at Book Bound Bookstore in Blairsville, GA, from 1 to 3 pm on Saturday, April 30th. https://bookboundbooks.com/ If you’re in the area, please stop by in celebration of...
C.S. Lewis said “You’re never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
Here’s a great article on Literary Hub’s site by Kathleen Stone on writers who debuted after the age of sixty. I hope you enjoy it. Kathleen Stone is a writer whose debut, They Called Us Girls: Stories of Female Ambition from Suffrage to Mad Men, is out now from Cynren Press.
[A] writer is someone who pays attention to the world
Four great pieces from past issues of The Paris Review, one of my favorite literary magazines. Enjoy!
When Edward Hirsch spoke to Susan Sontag, in between her trips to Sarajevo, for a 1995 Art of Fiction interview, he noted that her work seemed “haunted by war.” She said, “I could answer that a writer is someone who pays attention to the world.” This week, we’re rereading a poem by Claribel Alegria and a story by Nadine Gordimer, looking back at a portfolio of the writer Ryszard Kapuściński’s photographs, watching the news, and considering what it means to pay attention.
