Monk Camp

July 26, 2014

I’ve spent the last month at Holy Cross Monastery, an Episcopalian monastery on the Hudson River, a few miles north …

On Alice Munro, reading, empathy and “Dance of the Happy Shades”

May 20, 2014

About a year ago, several months before Alice Munro so deservedly won the Nobel Prize for Literature, I set out …

April 29, 2014

I have so much to say about A Tale For the Time Being, and yet nothing I can say. This …

March 14, 2014

In the last few days I took a writing retreat to Porches, in the mountains of Virgina, about an hour …

February 15, 2012

Last night I gave my Short Story students their paper assignment for the semester and induced a class-wide panic attack. …

January 23, 2012

The Fairy-Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley My rating: 4 of 5 stars I’m reading these for bookclub with my niece. …

May 31, 2011

To celebrate a friend’s graduation from her MFA program, she and I flew to the Yucatan peninsula for ten days …