Susan Orlean’s Writerly Autopsy at Hugo House
“Your first impulse shouldn’t be ‘I’m going to tape it,’ your first impulse should be to listen.” – @susanorlean pic.twitter.com/XL0NoHV9RM — Hugo House (@HugoHouse)...
Curiouser and Curiouser
I was stopped at a red light while driving my daughter to preschool. Next to me was one of those public wastelands, a strip of...
An Imposture of Writers at Iceland Writers Retreat
Ironically, there is no collective noun for writers. According to Google, James Lipton has suggested “a worship of writers.” Although Lipton is an expert on...
Book Report: Rin Tin Tin
In preparation for Iceland Writers Retreat, I am reading books by each of the featured authors. I placed holds on everything I could find at...
Book Report: My Kind of Place
In the introduction to My Kind of Place, Susan Orlean confesses that she loves to travel – even to places that don’t sound wonderful. When...