Work-in-Progress

Here’s a great—FREE—opportunity:  an online class on the work of Laura Ingalls Wilder, taught by Pamela Smith Hill, history faculty at Miss...

I was just remarking to a writer friend the other day that IMHO the hardest thing to learn about writing and the process is patience and th...

You can tell how excited I was about My Salinger Year (yesterday’s post) because I wrote about that before writing about some small food a...

I have a new definition of luxury—beyond my fantasies of all-you-can-eat lobster and all-you-can-drink Champagne—and that is to read a book...

Thanks to Frances Carden for interviewing me for Readers Lane…I got to talk about my books, my writing process, my current projects, and ev...

I’ve been cleaning out some bookshelves, culling and rearranging and rediscovering, and one book that I rediscovered in a dusty corner is a...

When I first saw the literary journal Midwestern Gothic at the AWP Book Fair, I knew I wanted my work to appear there. It felt like destin...