For the most part, the character sketches in The Book of Other People, edited by Zadie Smith, portray characters who are stuck and the writers do not offer the reader ... Read more

I chose to read Man Walks Into A Room by Nicole Krauss because History of Love had stirred me to writerly adoration and because the blurb I read promised a ... Read more

The truth is, March was not one of the books I planned read for this mailing. It’s probably not a book I would have picked up at all on my ... Read more

“But, no matter, the road is life” (211). In my copy of On The Road by Jack Kerouac, this line is not just underlined, but circled, no note next to ... Read more

The “Zooey” section of Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger begins thus: The facts at hand presumable speak for themselves, but a trifle more vulgarly, I suspect, than facts even ... Read more

I borrowed the idea of publishing this list from a friend who shared her list with me. I hope that others will do the same and we’ll all have lots ... Read more

Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook is one of my favorite books ever. And so when it came to choosing books to read for this mailing and I came across The ... Read more

`Before I delve into what I observed regarding craft in Nicole Krauss’s The History of Love and the applications of that novel to my own craft, I have to clear ... Read more

“I got out of bed and went to the kitchen. I keep my manuscript in a box int he oven. I took it out, set it on the kitchen table, ... Read more