Curating the Awst Press Anniversary Essay Series
Recently I had the honor of being asked by Awst Press to curate, along with the author Susanna Childress, its annual essay series. Awst is an independent [...]
Kirkus Review of Unforgivable Love
Kirkus calls Unforgivable Love "a dazzlingly dark and engaging tale full of heartbreak, treachery, and surprise." Kirkus critics also list the novel as similar to A Hundred [...]
The Music of Unforgivable Love
This lazy summer day, for me, brings to mind a moment in my novel Unforgivable Love when Val Jackson, enjoying after-dinner cocktails with Elizabeth Townsend and [...]
Book Review: Hunger-A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane Gay
“I don’t know how I let things get so out of control, but I do.” These words, repeated a few times in Roxane Gay’s memoir, [...]
The Intentional Writer: Diana Butler Bass
Diana Butler Bass delivered two insightful keynote addresses at Princeton Theological Seminary recently for the Frederick Buechner Writer’s Workshop. The first, “The Accidental Writer,” described [...]
Words on Writing from Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott delivered the keynote address for the opening of the Frederick Buechner Writer’s Workshop at Princeton Theological Seminary. It’s my second year leading sessions [...]
Inspired by Louis Jordan
I knew Louis Jordan’s music long before I knew his name. My daddy loved B.B. King so I grew up listening to B.B. King [...]
Book Review: Living in the Weather of the World by Richard Bausch
This book made me reconsider the word “story”—not the definition of story but our experience of story in its ages-old form before it had the [...]