Category: Reading as a Writer

  • Mood Work

    In 1998, not long after my father died, I read 1984 by George Orwell. A great novel, far from great timing. When we read a…

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  • Refuge of Story

    I have a dear friend who is beginning his battle with cancer. Much has changed. His weight has dropped, how he eats has been altered,…

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  • Reader’s Group

    I’d never been to a reader’s group. The last Saturday evening in August - I imagined folding chairs and a clamshell of store-bought cookies. Bottles…

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  • That Last Page Melancholy

    For the better part of four years I have offered you a post on writing, Dear Reader, every two weeks on Wednesday. I have not,…

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  • Reading The Goldfinch

    If you are attempting to write (fiction or otherwise) and you are not an avid* reader, you are experiencing all sorts of problems. You are…

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