I'm writing my own stories about growing up in Texas; so I naturally had to read LIAR'S CLUB and CHERRY. I'm glad I did, although my tortured journey toward adulthood began ten years earlier than Mary's and involved nine years in an orphanage. Not comparing; just giving my angle of orientation. T...
stephen king raves about this book in his book about writing, on writing. i loved on writing & think stephen king is an awesomely underrated craftsperson when it comes to writing, so i eventually got my act together & checked this book out of the library. kind of astonishing that it took me like ...
The scholar, closing his book as the midnight clocks strike, is hollow and old; The pilot’s relief on landing is no release. These perfect and private things, walling us in, have imperfect and public endings… —Weldon Kees, “The Smiles of the Bathers” So we move to upstate New York, into a house o...