Tag Archives: Erik Larson

The Death of Romance

In 1986 I attended my first writers’ conference: two weeks at Johns Hopkins University. All in all, it seemed the stars converged to create an experience that was memorable, unique, cherished. I had the great good fortune to study under … Continue reading

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My First Book Club

This morning I had a new and wonderful life experience: I attended a book club. And the book being discussed was mine. You won’t know it when you read this post, but after I wrote those first two sentences, I … Continue reading

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You are HERE!

I have a terrible sense of direction—as does my brother. Maybe it’s genetic. I suspect, however, that it’s more on the order of the circumstance that plagued Macon and his siblings in Anne Tyler’s Accidental Tourist.  In that novel, the … Continue reading

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