Writers love to talk about what a thick skin it takes to do what we do, and how quickly inured to rejection we become. Don’t believe a word of it….
Letters From Rose
My Summer Reading
May 31, 2009 I’ve never been one for light reading in the summer. With my teaching duties suspended, summer is the time when I can read purely for myself….
How the New Age Movement Drove Me to the National Hockey League
With the National Hockey League kicking off its All-Star Weekend today in Montreal, I’m feeling sentimental about my own introduction to the great game of hockey, detailed below. I originally…
Books by Grace Cavalieri and Sam Truitt
On Sunday, I had the pleasure of introducing two great poets in a reading at the Writer’s Center: Sam Truitt, whose most recent collection, Vertical Elegies, is really three books…
A Great Big Mind and an Even Bigger Heart
A Great Big Mind and an Even Bigger Heart: David Foster Wallace, 1962-2008 It has been a month since David Foster Wallace took his own life, but the fact…
Letter from Lakefield
Letter from Lakefield: Discovering Margaret Laurence If, like me, you mourn our current era of conglomerate “book” stores, you’re probably always on the hunt for a good independent bookseller. Here…