maternity corsets
The new novel I'm working on (Hollingworth) is set in an ancestral house in Connecticut where a crime that took place in the 1920s comes to light when something is
in which I speak up for students speaking out
Thanks to the Lakeville Journal for publishing my essay on free speech and college campuses as an op-ed this week. To read it, click here or squint hard at the
welcome to my new office
Big thanks to Melanie Locay, research director, who just gave me a key to The Allen Room where I've got a year's residency to write my next chapters in one of the best
Greetings from the Turn of the Other Century
The novel I'm writing takes place over the course three centuries. Two of the centuries are easy for me to set scenes in--I have a pretty good idea of what's going on
University of Indianapolis
I was delighted to do read from WHAT WAS MINE at the University of Indianapolis at a Kellogg Writers Series event where I was also honored to accept The 2017 Whirling Prize
No, Simon & Schuster isn’t violating Milo’s free speech
Last year, Simon & Schuster awarded professional provocateur Milo Yiannopoulis a $250K book contract for a book on "free speech." Today, they took that contract away after videotapes resurfaced
Traveler’s Vade Mecum Poem in NYT Magazine
First sighting of poem from The Traveler's Vade Mecum in The New York Times Magazine tomorrow. "There Was A Great Want of Civility" by Julie Suarez, chosen by Matthew Zapruder.
New York Public Library launches The Traveler’s Vade Mecum
How fitting that the New York Public Library hosted the launch of THE TRAVELER'S VADE MECUM, anthology of new poems prompted by old telegrams, from Red Hen Press. The telegram titles were sourced from an 1853 compendium
preparing to launch
Today, I'm in a "Staff Only" room at the main (lions) New York Public Library meeting with Dr. Carolyn Broomhead. She is helping us put together the launch reading for THE TRAVELER'S VADE
pub day for The Traveler’s Vade Mecum!
A few years ago, I came across THE TRAVELER'S VADE MECUM on Twitter. It was a compendium published in 1853--a book of 8566 telegrams, all numbered so the sender wouldn't