Yesterday morning, I received the most haunting and devastating e-mail from a long-lost friend. All day, his e-mail hung in the foreground of my mind, and I couldn’t shake it. It’s one of those correspondences that makes you shiver, shake, and cry, and immediately, you want to drive over to where he is, and wrap […]
Reviews and Dorothy Day
Two more lovely reviews of Eve from the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the Historical Novels Review. You can read portions of them on the Media page. Well, for a long time now I’ve wanted to read Dorothy Day’s autobiography The Long Loneliness, because I’ve read other books about her, written by other people, and I […]
Novelist as God & Clever Learning Ideas
This week’s Speaking of Faith broadcast “Novelist as God” piqued my interest, for in the outlining and writing of Eve, I was playing God. I had to ponder questions like: Was the Garden a perfect place? Did Adam and Eve have sex in the Garden? Did Adam and Eve have children in the Garden? Were […]
Wroblewski’s Webcast
If you’ve not read David Wroblewski’s The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, you must. I reviewed it shortly before Oprah picked it as one of her Book Club selections. You can read my review here, but be forewarned, I include spoilers, so you may want to wait until after reading. This past Monday evening, Oprah held […]
Seeing
Each year I splurge on the Newbery Medal Award-winning and Caldecott Medal Award-winning books. If you follow the children’s book awards given out by the American Library Association, you’ll know that these awards (in addition to many others) are decided in January, and this past Monday was this year’s announcement day. [My interest lies in […]