Saturday, December 31, 2011

Converse Residency: Day 1

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Well…I accessed the internet here   at the Convers low-res   MFA residency in the mountains of North Carolina, but sloooow, so I’ll be brief...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

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Given that I am writing this about 12 hours after the time I usually blog, I would have to say that the holiday season has officially won, a...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

John Waters Loves Lionel Shriver, Too!

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We saw John Waters perform his one-man Christmas monologue on Sunday night, and he was fabulous and funny.   Famous for, well, I’m not sure...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

My Novel Chapter Is Published in The Drum, an Audio Journal!

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An excerpt from my historical Chicago novel is now up on The Drum Literary Magazine .   Here’s the Very Cool thing… The Drum is an audio jo...
Monday, December 19, 2011

New Lionel Shriver Book Coming in March!

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I was delighted to learn that my literary idol, Lionel Shriver, will be coming out with a new novel in March, 2012:   The New Republic.   I...
Friday, December 16, 2011

Work in Progress: My Favorite Christmas Reading

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Since I didn’t blog yesterday, my penance is to write about something horrifying and embarrassing, specifically the books and stories that I...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Crazy Daisy vs. Ms. Grind

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I love this blog post by Karin Gillespie, one of the fiction students in the Converse College Low-Res MFA program.   She writes about the d...