Good Prose and Good Science — Quibbling with the Masters

January 18, 2015

At first Steven Pinker was my new hero. Within the first few pages of reading his widely acclaimed “The Sense …

Books I’ve Abandoned

September 19, 2014

Sad to say, but I abandon more books than I finish nowadays. I simply lose interest in them. I read a …

September 9, 2014

What follows are the 20 favorite books that helped shape the way I think and write. It was hard to limit …

August 28, 2014

One of the things I love about Annie Dillard’s book “The Writing Life” is how it addresses both the drudgery and …

December 27, 2013

I just finished writing an 85,000 word novel that I’ve been working on the past couple of years. It feels …

September 15, 2012

I wanted to share this, a beautifully written post about women and writing and a review of Terry Tempest Williams’ book …