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Day by Michael Cunningham

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Day by Michael Cunningham This novel is wonderful for its in-depth character portrayals. Cunningham takes very authentic and simple domestic situations and makes them the subject of this beautifully paced work. A generation of young parents and their inquisitive children,…
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Where were you four years ago? COVID in the rearview (and the writing)

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Four years ago this month, our nation shut down with the onset of the COVID pandemic. Thinking back on those days still elicits painful memories of confusion, disruption, and terrible loss. We each have unique stories of how COVID impacted our lives. The first half of 2020 irreversibly…
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Writing Daughter of a Promise, a Biblical Retelling

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This essay was originally published on Women Writers, Women's Books. Some people assume writing a third novel must be easier than writing the first, which is true to some degree only because one knows what to expect: that they are in for a long, winding, doubt-ridden journey. When…
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Slowing it Down: Talking Snow, Story, and Swirling Change

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Greetings from Park City where the world outside my window swirls with snow and the world inside my head swirls with story—from all that I saw at The Sundance Film Festival, as well as daily reading and writing. This includes re-reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Middlemarch by…
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Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur

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Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur In Little Monsters, as in her memoir Wild Game, I loved Brodeur's writing, especially the descriptions of Cape Cod. The portrayal of setting was my favorite thing about this book. My second favorite book was Adam's character. He is bipolar…
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New Year, New Writing Updates!

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Happy New Year! If you're a long-time reader or you've subscribed to my newsletter in the past, you may have noticed I’ve migrated my essays and letters to Substack. Introducing... I hope to share writing monthly, and I hope you'll come along with me on the journey. If…
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Daughter of a Promise

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The Nine

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Eden: A Novel

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