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Sustainability in Publishing and in Life

Happy Earth Day! What do Earth Day and sustainability have to do with my writing? Let's talk about it. I…

James by Percival Everett In this retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Percival Everett gives us enslaved Jim's point…

Day by Michael Cunningham This novel is wonderful for its in-depth character portrayals. Cunningham takes very authentic and simple domestic…

Four years ago this month, our nation shut down with the onset of the COVID pandemic. Thinking back on those…

This essay was originally published on Women Writers, Women's Books. Some people assume writing a third novel must be easier…

Greetings from Park City where the world outside my window swirls with snow and the world inside my head swirls…

Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur In Little Monsters, as in her memoir Wild Game, I loved Brodeur's writing, especially the…

Happy New Year! If you're a long-time reader or you've subscribed to my newsletter in the past, you may have…

The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell If you loved Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, this one is a bit of a…

The Stark Beauty of Last Things by Celine Keating The Stark Beauty of Last Things is a poetic novel that…