Have you ever been sad when you finished reading a book? That’s how I felt this weekend when I finished…
After a fun and busy spring book tour for Tangles and Plaques: A Mother and Daughter Face Alzheimer’s (11 events…
Yesterday I attended a funeral for the brother of a young friend who goes to my church. His brother took…
My dear friend Kevin Scherer has written an important book. I was honored to be an early reader for Truly…
I never read Elizabeth Strout’s book Olive Kitteridge. I saw the HBO series and somehow felt a heaviness about it…
Some time last year Elayne Clift invited me to contribute an essay to an anthology she was putting together. It…
I’m working on my fourth book, another anthology I’m editing: Southern Writers on Writing. The manuscript has been through the…
About five years ago I was at the Yoknapatawpha Summer Writer’s Workshop, and one of the speakers was Tom Franklin.…
Today is known in the Orthodox Christian Church as the “Leave-taking of Pascha.” (Here’s a talk given on this topic…
Our visit to Charleston and Beaufort, South Carolina, this past Wednesday-Sunday was nothing short of magical. In five days we…