“From the day Jane walked out our front door — taking everything of value she could stuff in her car, except our seven-year-old daughter, Shoshana — the ferrets began appearing in our backyard.” First lines of a new short story, “The Beauty Secrets of Cave Dwellers,” now available in The Saturday Evening Post. To read…(Read More)
“Basically, I was a four-year-old insomniac creating novels in my head.” In this interview with Romilly Golding for Bwritr Sarl, I found myself chatting about all sorts of things unintended. To read more, please look here…(Read More)
Wildacres
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Delighted to have been invited to spend two weeks in April of 2022 as a writer in residence at the Wildacres Retreat and Conference Center, high up in the Blue Ridge Mountains. A cabin of my own, no connectivity, and hours of quiet and solitude (but for the wild turkeys, deer, squirrels, and the occasional…(Read More)
Radio Télévision Suisse invited me to come down to their studio to discuss the work of 2021 Nobel Laureate in Literature Abdulrazak Gurnah. What a pleasure! For years, I’ve been recommending the Zanzibar-born, UK-based author’s work and teaching excerpts thereof — so delighted to see Gurnah receive this recognition and…(Read More)
Radio Télévision Suisse invited me to come down to their studio to discuss the work of 2021 Nobel Laureate in Literature Abdulrazak Gurnah. What a pleasure! For years, I’ve been recommending the Zanzibar-born, UK-based author’s work and teaching excerpts thereof — so delighted to see Gurnah receive this recognition and…(Read More)
“During the night, a friend has sent a poem she wrote about an island off of an island we visited together. For a few moments I am there again, feeling the pooling light on my wet shoulders and tasting salt in my mouth. “But I am not on that island. I’m in landlocked Switzerland…(Read More)
“During the night, a friend has sent a poem she wrote about an island off of an island we visited together. For a few moments I am there again, feeling the pooling light on my wet shoulders and tasting salt in my mouth. “But I am not on that island. I’m in landlocked Switzerland…(Read More)
“Are we ever entirely satisfied with our creative output? I’ve tried the thousand-words-a-day writing regimen, but the same process doesn’t necessarily fit every book. The one element that remains consistent for me is the need to construct a living breathing world and living breathing individuals within it before I start…(Read More)
“Following the successive deaths of all four of their children, aged from 12 days to 11 years old, between 1880 and 1890, financier Spencer and writer Katrina Trask in 1900 bequeathed the near entirety of their considerable fortune toward establishing an artists’ retreat on their rambling estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. “Since God in…(Read More)
After spending a month at Yaddo in 2019, I was delighted to share a few words on the famed artist retreat’s inspirational history and brave future with one of my favorite publications, AD (Architectural Digest). To read the piece in entirety (and see pics!), look here…(Read More)
