Spring with my New Neighbors The day broke this morning with a chorale of song by my new neighbors some very lovely birds serenading me…
Julianna Baggott, http://www.juliannabaggott.com, who also writes as N.E. Bode and Bridget Asher, is the author of eighteen books, including Which Brings Me To You, co-written…
2011 is the tenth anniversary of 9/11 and the start of the interminable invasion of Afghanistan. More quietly but nonetheless significantly, it is also ten…
James Brown My obsession for muscle comes to an abrupt and sudden end along a narrow, two-lane mountain highway. This is the…
Ian Jack for the Guardian Sat. 29, January 2011 Arundhati Roy took the literary world by storm 14 years ago with The God of Small Things….
Duff Brenna Jack Driscoll is the author of three novels, a collection of short stories, and three books of poems. Winner of the…
Ishmael Reed I interviewed Lou Gossett, Jr. in his lovely Malibu home on June 25, 2010. His talk ranged over a number of topics. After…
E.B. White One summer, along about 1904, my father rented a camp on a lake in Maine and took us all there for…
Robert Gover In 1965 when I was 35, my literary agent, Scott Meredith, landed a record-breaking contract with Pocket Books for my fifth novel,…
Andrew Johnson Hundreds of thousands of aspiring novelists around the world will put pen to paper – or fingers to keyboard – tomorrow with…
Sam Hamod Often when I’m introduced to Anglos, people say, “Did you say Hammond or was it Hamon?” I reply, “Hamod, like Mohammed.” In…