Category Archives: Blog
Against the Odds: Three American Novels of Survival
As I was cleaning out my bookshelves recently, I happened to find three books that [...]
Author and Naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter, a Kindred Spirit
Last summer I visited the Cabin at Wildflower Woods, the former home of one of [...]
Aug
Why We Should All Read The Squatter and the Don
Classic American literature can sometimes feel as distant in time as it does in style [...]
Aug
How to Find (or Build) a Writing Community – Part Two
This is the second in a three-part series on finding and building a writing community. [...]
American Authors as Activists
The controversial and historic election of reality star and billionaire businessman Donald Trump to the [...]
Tom Wolfe and the Power of Language
This past December, during the frenzied buildup to Christmas, I was shopping for gifts for [...]
Genres…and More
So many choices, where to begin? For years, newspapers have been dividing bestsellers into Fiction [...]
Madelyn Pugh Davis: Girl Writer for “I Love Lucy” – Part 2
Last we left off, it was the late 1940s and Madelyn Pugh Davis and her [...]
Jul
The Way People Write About Home
In her collection I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron includes the essay “Moving [...]