One gorgeous opening…

As any of my journalism or creative writing students would assure you, I’m quite obsessed with strong leads. I’ve got a collection of favorite openings from novels, newspaper pieces, and non-fiction, and use them frequently when I teach. But it has been a...

An attempt at genuine updates!

Those of you who’ve followed the site over the past few years are probably used to the one or two changes I make per year. Not too exciting, I realize. In fact, I discovered the last update on my news page was two years and two books old. Oops. This new page...