Category Archives: Blog
On Regret
We often think of a well-received, award-winning, widely-read piece of published writing as a triumph [...]
Oct
Writing Out the Bad Stuff
Last summer someone gutted my new bike. Both wheels and the seat, gone. They left [...]
Friend or Foe: Writers and their Feuds
Friction among writers has all the earmarks of a good fiction story, but make no [...]
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Faulkner’s Rowan Oak
Slipping through a cold metal turnstile, I enter Rowan Oak, William Faulkner’s home in Oxford, [...]
Sep
“Such Friends:” Maxwell Perkins and F. Scott Fitzgerald
By: Kathleen Dixon Donnelly Scribner’s editor Maxwell Perkins [1884-1947] and author F. Scott Fitzgerald [1896-1940] [...]
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Sep
The Strange Sadness of Stephen King’s “It”
For the longest time, I told myself that I would never read any book written [...]
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Sep
The Iconic Typewriter
If you have ever watched Madam Secretary on CBS and stayed tuned through the closing [...]
Sep
Salinger at Princeton – Part 2
For the most dedicated Salingerites, much of the material in the collection is familiar, available [...]
Mr. Snodgrass and the Maid of Orléans
Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass was one alias of a man who used many names (like W. [...]
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Sep