(That title should provide some interesting Google hits) Marilyn Monroe is on the cover of the current issue of Poets & Writers, reading Joyce’s Ulysses. (And yes, she really was reading it. This was a candid photo. I know. I …
I just read this terrific essay on DeLillo’s Libra, a book I finished reading yesterday. It’s an enjoyable essay for those who have read or might read the book. I hesitate to say it, but I’m afraid DeLillo might be …
The only real disappointment so far from this first year of gardening (the whole toxoplasmosis scandal, and the day the birds ate my okra seedlings aside) has been about yields. Having no idea how much to expect from the amount …
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So I started early on the revisions. But just two days early. I was scheduled to start on Tuesday, but now Tuesday I have a doctor’s appointment. And I needed the first day to be a long one, because the …
If you’ve been around here for a while, you know that before Thumper was born, I worked in book publishing, in several major trade houses. (Okay. I never said anything bad about them, so I’ll just tell you. I worked …
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I had a few hours to write this morning. Lon ( aka best draft reader in all the land) sent feedback on my most recent short story this morning, and I’d planned to settle in with his comments and work …
Okay…not the biggest harvest, was it? One berry for each of us, after our french toast breakfast on Saturday morning. And eaten still sunwarm, right from the plant (after a quick rinse in the sink). There are many little green …
Thanks to that self-imposed cooling-off period, I’m not allowed to start revisions on the new novel until July 8th. It was a good decision to hold off, but it’s absolute torture. I want to dive in and get back to …
…and then I ate kale from our garden. In that basket, the first of our kale (Winterbor and Improved Siberian Dwarf) and beet greens. This kale was so damn tender. Unbelievably tender. Not only was it nothing like supermarket kale, …
I finished the first draft of the new novel on June 10th. I’m not allowed to even look at that draft, much less start revising, until July 8th. I set that date, made that rule myself, and yet every time …