One of the many blessings of my life is my book group.
Blog Posts on Writing and Authors
Where the Bee Sucks
As a devoted reader of all of Shakespeare’s poems, I’ve always been puzzled by the verb, “sucks” in this line from The Tempest.
Escaping the Labyrinth of Nostalgia
As the first copies of my memoir, Little Brother, begin to circulate, I’m struck by the way some friends have responded to the photograph of Jonathan on the cover.
Doris Farewell
Thursday night I was privileged to present a conversation about my book and Doris Duke in one of the huge gilded rooms at Rough Point…
Doris Redux
I’m about to leave New York City in its grey rain for Newport and Rough Point, the big house on Ocean Avenue Doris inherited from her father and that seems to have been closely associated, for her, with her mother.
Getting to YES
Out of the sour ground of NO spring many hopeful sprigs, especially the generous responses to so many of my posts from you.
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.
NO
For me as a writer, the NO that seems to set a limit to all my hopes comes in response to an idea, a manuscript—or, in this case, a proposal.
How Wonderful Is That
In the midst of so much bad news, this astonishing performance of starlings, those little birds many of us have learned to hate, is a reminder of our ability to communicate and cooperate
Oh Those Resolutions!
A dear friend of mine reinvented the ritual of New Year’s Resolutions this year, writing a letter on paper trimmed with gold stars to send to his friends…