Review: Mark Doty’s Fire to Fire
A beautiful book. Not my favorite, ever, but gorgeous all the same. And there is something that feels so good …
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Porches – Book Reviews
In the last few days I took a writing retreat to Porches, in the mountains of Virgina, about an hour …
“The Shining Houses” (AMP #2): Swimming against the current
Story two of the Alice Munro Project is “The Shining Houses,” which is a beautiful, short, Alice Munro story. Let …
October Reading – 2012
Books read in October 2012: The Homespun Wisdom of Myrtle T. Cribb by Sheri Reynolds Eragon by Christopher Paolini The …
Beauty in Books
Last night, after a fifteen hour day of teaching prep, grading and teaching, I unwound by reading Where the Mountain …
All Souls Essay
Last night I gave my Short Story students their paper assignment for the semester and induced a class-wide panic attack. …
The Sisters Grimm
The Fairy-Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’m reading these for bookclub with my niece. …
Of Dogs, Men and Nature
I gave my nephew a set of four books this last Christmas: Big Red, Irish Red, Outlaw Red (a trilogy …
In A Better World
Yesterday I watched In A Better World at the Naro Cinema. I was thinking about using this blog mainly to …
Vacation Reading – The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa
To celebrate a friend’s graduation from her MFA program, she and I flew to the Yucatan peninsula for ten days …
The Great Ramble 