Oscar’s Gift Reading Guide: Day 5 A Buffalo by Any Other Name “I pretended I was a young Indian boy who had carved the arrowhead to use to hunt the buffalo that ate the buffalo grass. In my imagination, I would bring the slain buffalo back to my camp, where I would be cheered and …
In preparation for the month-long daily online reading guide for Oscar’s Gift: Planting Words with Oscar Micheaux, the Kindle edition is available for free this weekend, today and tomorrow. Don’t have a Kindle? No problem. You can read it on any of Kindle’s free reading apps. Last week I was fortunate to meet another Oscar …
This video by Total Vision Media is an excellent introduction to the life and work of pioneer feature filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, the subject of my children’s historical novel, Oscar’s Gift: Planting Words with Oscar Micheaux: Oscar Micheaux from Total Vision Media on Vimeo.
“It was as if she had an appointment to meet the rest of herself, sometime, somewhere. It was moving to meet her, and she was moving to meet it.”— Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark Is it really almost three months since I’ve written here? Rest assured that all is well. During the past …
The most informative session I attended at the AWP Conference last week was “Putting the Story in History II,” presented by these authors: Ron Hansen (read his essay “The Ethics of Fiction Writing“) Speer Morgan (watch him discuss “Why We Publish the Missouri Review“) Philip Gerard (read his article “The Fact Behind the Facts“) Debra …