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And every small tragedy is also large. The anniversary of the September eleventh attacks was made somehow more personal this year. September tenth is my niece Michel’s birthday. She would have been twenty-three. Her family and friends gathered at my sister’s house to celebrate her life. For a few hours, all the media stories about [...] "China Doll's Gift" by humbholthead, used under Creative Commons License It happened again. A young woman days away from graduating from college was the victim in a murder-suicide. Marcory “Cindy” Caliguiran was 25. The man who murdered her and her friend Kyle Williams was her 54-year-old husband. It happened in one of the parking [...] My principles, when it comes to the art of fiction, tend to be molten: hotly held and hotly defended, but ultimately a fluid thing, able to be shaped and re-formed. But real-life tragedy has a way of turning principles from debatable points of discussion into immutable, inarguable doctrine. One of my principles, which I often [...] I have been puzzling for months over the primary critique of my novel that I received from the editor who is reading it — that my protagonist lives in her own head too much. My problem isn’t one of understanding but of experience. To me, the sixteen-year-old who observes and broods and ponders and wonders [...] I’ve been reading The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion again, and she writes about how we turn to what we know to cope in times of grief. I’ve been reading about grief in literature (my next post on that will be coming soon) and I’ve been writing. And writing and writing. There was [...] |
My Opium Den
After some thinking, I realized why I didn't finish this book (even as I racked up late fees from the library): I found the subject matter, the history of the region of England called Sunderland, interesting, but there was nothing about the...
Lovely art by Camilla D'Errico (who should be listed as a co-author) provide mood and texture for this story of a troubled young girl whose fantasy life becomes a bit too real when she visits a website called Make5wishes.com. The authors ar...
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