As you can easily figure, through all the years of submissions and rejections, publishing a book was my ultimate goal. Or my pipe dream, as it seemed. I produced two full-length manuscripts of poetry, one of short stories and one of essays. I attended writers’ groups and book clubs. I wrote three novels, appealed to […]
Feb 19 2014
Author interview with Kim Barnes
Kim Barnes is a much-loved and critically acclaimed author. She has published major work in both fiction and non-fiction. Her memoir, In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country, received a PEN/Jerard Fund Award and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her most recent novel, In the Kingdom of Men, was listed among the Best […]
Jan 30 2014
Win a $20 gift card to Powell’s
Have you ever been to Powell’s City of Books in Portland, Oregon? It’s incredible! The book store covers two whole city blocks. You can wander for hours from room to room where new and used books are sold side-by-side. I’m raffling away a $20 gift card to folks who join my email list. Don’t worry! […]
Jan 27 2014
Drawer No More!
What does the image of a drawer bring to mind? A disarray of socks and underwear with no connection to literature or new technologies? True, but before computers became the storage unit of choice for years’ worth of old text files, a drawer jammed with manuscripts represented a serious backlog of unpublished material. In Russian […]
Jan 17 2014
Listen to a reading of “Relic of a Bygone Day”
Let me read to you! Here’s my voice recording of “Relic of a Bygone Day,” an essay in my collection To Boldly Go: Essays for the Turning Years.
