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A Page a Day
by Lynn Sloan April. It shouldn’t snow in April, but I was stuck in a snowstorm in evening rush hour traffic on Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive. Ahead, four lanes of red taillights crept up the rise at...
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Living Time, Writing Time: Braiding Two Time Strands
by Jessica Levine Following is the second installment of Jessica Levine’s series on the treatment of time in fiction. Click here to read the first installment, in which she writes about Proust’s...
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The Terriblest Poet
by Brian Bouldrey The following essay is dedicated to the author’s goddaughter, Rafaela Alford. 1. His autobiography begins, “My Dear Readers of this autobiography, which I am the author of, I get...
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A Prismatic View: Talking Real Life and Fiction at the American Library in Paris
by Sion Dayson Discussions of autobiography and writing often reference a quote by Flannery O’Connor, the queen of Southern Gothic literature and avid keeper of peacocks. “The fact is,” she wrote in...
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Sex and Widowhood
by Tally R. Reynolds The three of us, two unnatural brunettes and one thinking about letting her gray be the new blonde, stroll into a local suburban café. Soft jazz warms the air. Conversation fills...
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James Salter Remembered
by Sonya Chung Among the memories and stories shared at a memorial service for James Salter held last night in New York City, a favorite of mine tells that, when he was in his sixties, his mother said...
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“Maybe There’s a Novel There”: On Stalking, Empathy, & Becoming a...
by Mason Stokes 1. One of the most difficult things about graduate study in literature is explaining yourself at the cocktail parties your parents drag you to over Christmas break. This is...
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EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: The Long Journey of Ghost Horse
by Thomas H. McNeely On a bright winter day at the end of 2010, after weeks of botched biopsies, I walked out, blinking, into the noontime bustle of Harvard Square. Christmas decorations hung from iron...
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Better Late Than Early: On Blooming as a Reader
by Sonya Chung I recently had the privilege of participating in a panel at the Center for Fiction in New York City. The topic was “Modern Family,” and the moderator posed the question: “What...
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The Middle Ages
by Laura Pritchett The books on my bookshelves currently look like they’ve been riffled through by a teenager—dog-eared and underlined in the areas that . . . offer instruction, shall we say. But I am...
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One Novelist’s Addiction to Fiction: The Lost Titles of an Ancient Writer
by Ed Protzel My wife and I recently headed to the basement for spring cleaning. Out of the debris we cleared were two heavy boxes containing writings from my young adult life that I had every...
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The Origins of Opportunity
by Sonya Terjanian My mother bloomed in her forties, but instead of a gentle unfolding, her bloom was more like an explosion. When my sister and I were three and five years old, she moved us all to a...
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From Poetry to Prose: On Discovering a New Voice
by Elizabeth Garber I sometimes wonder why I write poetry. I can’t imagine doing anything else. This is how I save my life. Maybe this is how my mind sounds? One day, I thought, I write because I want...
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Lost & Found: Jenn Stroud Rossmann on Making, and Taking, Her Time
by Jenn Stroud Rossmann How do you find the time, some people ask a person who has a job and a family and has also written a novel. The person who has a job and a family and has also written a novel is...
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Writing over 50: A Teacher’s Own Lessons
by Peter Krass When I recently launched an online workshop for over-50 writers, I guessed that many of the same challenges I faced as an older writer — I’m now 62 — would be shared by others. My guess...
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Time for Something Else
by Pamela Holmes Above my head danced images of winged, haloed saints. A pelican pecked at her breast, feeding blood droplets to her young brood. Golden angels holding jewelled crowns leapt from the...
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Serendipity at Seventy Plus
by Roy J. Adams At the age of 78, I just published my debut book of poetry. It was not the culmination of a life-long dream. Before my early 70s, I never imagined becoming a poet. During my first 69...
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The Dreaded Question
by Marlene Adelstein Now that my debut novel, Sophie Last Seen, has just been published and I’ve started doing readings and interviews to promote it, I’m hoping my least favorite question won’t pop...
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Scarlett in Fact
by Maureen Teresa McCarthy “Scarlett O’Hara was not beautiful but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm…”Those famous lines are imprinted on the minds of many of us, girls who met Scarlett...
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The Secret Story: K. L. Cook on What’s Hidden
K. L. Cook is the author of six books. His first, Last Call, a collection of linked stories, won the inaugural Prairie Schooner Prize in 2004 when he was 40 and was published by the University of...
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