I got this idea from Jennifer K’s blog, which I follow. She has five great ideas. I’ll add a couple more. My top gift ideas for writers? 1. Housecleaning! Because how can I justify sitting here, writing, when my house is so dusty? When it badly needs vacuumed? The kitchen! The bathrooms! 2. Another book. […]
It’s a time of year for gift giving. If you were going to give someone your top ten books, what would those ten books be? My friend Janet writes: I wish your readers would share “what they reread.” If you put it that way: all of Jane Austen every couple years. All of Dorothy L […]
“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.” ― Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose I was killing time in a book store earlier, and I picked up Theo Pauline Nestor’s Writing Is My Drink. It is exactly the sort of book I find addictive: part memoir, part […]
I have read most of these books, and all of these authors with the exception of Thomas Mann and George Moore (I don’t know how I have managed to avoid Mann; he is one of my husband’s favorite authors). But in numerous ways this list bugs me, so I thought I’d blog about what I […]