I don’t know that April is still the cruelest month. I’m sure it was in…
Category: Ann’s Blog
Not long ago, I decided it was time to reread To the Lighthouse, or I…
What’s the best reason I know to co-own a bookstore? It means I get to see…
Barbara Kingsolver and I once did a conversation together in a little town in North…
I’ve been struggling with back story lately. How much does the reader need to know?…
Picture me writing my novel, head down, fingers flying, type, type, type. I really don’t…
In 1985, when I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, my best…
I’m sitting in the airport, feeling terrible about Philip Roth’s death. I’ve been a devoted…
Let’s imagine that for each of us there is a basic self and an extraneous…
I’d worked with Liz Sullivan before. She’s an executive editor at Harper Collins, the person…
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