My mother didn’t favor books written for children since she believed we could all absorb adult literature at an early age and be the better for it—and I think she was probably right.
Blog Posts on Writing and Authors
Me and Harry Belafonte
The role of popular performers in reshaping political opinions, especially for young people, has never been fully recognized.
The Glamour of Empire
I’m reading Virginia Woolf’s “The Years,” the only one of her novels I haven’t read.
Margaret in the Wilderness
Surrounded by disasters of every kind, we are seeing the great strengths of our extraordinary adaptability, valued and valuable as it has never been before.
The Grip of the Past
I’ve just received word that my new short story, “What I Learned From Fat Annie” has won the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize for 2023.
The First Day of Spring
Here with the first day of spring yesterday in the midst of heavy snowfall—98 inches on the mountain, the most in many years—I am announcing the Revolution.
She
Must the divine feminine be denatured?
The Virgin Goes Into Labor
Oh the ghosts of Christmas past! We all have them. May yours wear holly wreaths and drag chains of tinkling bells if they have to drag chains at all.
Small Potatoes
One of those rare fortuitous meetings that make life so interesting occurred in the fall in a hallway at the New York Society Library, my home away from home in that city.
Margaret Erskine: “Taken by Indians”
I started writing Margaret’s story, based on a brief memoir she dictated to her nephew many years after her taking…