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Note: I’m excited to be able to give away a free copy of The Bird Sisters with a bookplate signed by Rebecca! Just leave a comment on this post before midnight, Friday, April 15th to enter. I’ll choose a name at random and announce the winner on April 16th. “On a particularly low morning…” This …
A quick post today to share a link to a video about Wisconsin author Ilsa J. Bick, who switched careers at midlife from psychologist to writer. The voyage was slow at first, but it took off when she won a Star Trek writing contest. Watch the news feature at Local Author Gets Rave Reviews. Learn …
My husband does! Or at least some of the best of them. 🙂 We just learned that both volumes of his long-term, many-years-in-the-making project of editing Samuel Richardson’s Pamela are now listed on the Cambridge University Press website: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded Pamela in Her Exalted Condition “Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded is perhaps the most …
This is a good time to check in with my March goal, which is to read one fiction and one non-fiction book a week. So far, I’ve finished Catching Fire, Mockingjay, and Predictable Irrationality, so having the goal in mind is definitely helping to focus my reading time. It’s not that I necessarily want to …
I can’t let February 2nd go by without noting James Joyce’s birthday. Yesterday I had the pleasure of reading his Dubliners short story “Araby” to 20 college students (all of whom, by coincidence, were male, which for this particular story seemed fitting): NORTH RICHMOND STREET being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour …