I just got a signed copy of Corey Mesler’s wonderful new book of poetry, Vitamins for Ygdrasil and Other Poems.…
What, and How Are They Doing? For the past two weeks I’ve posted entries from 13 authors who contributed essays…
For the first seven or so years of our marriage, my husband and I did not celebrate Christmas. As I…
A few months ago I met Mark Fleischer at a reading I was giving for SOUTHERN WRITERS ON WRITING at…
I’m excited to kick off the fall with events for all three of my books, in Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee:…
Yesterday my publisher, Joe Lee (Dogwood Press, Brandon, Mississippi) sent me this picture. HOT OFF THE PRESS and coming to…
Tomorrow is the one year anniversary of Pat Conroy’s death (March 4, 2016). Pat was my favorite author. I read…
In the wake of the news of The Booksellers at Laurelwood’s closing in Memphis, I’ve been sad and somewhat in…
Corey Mesler has a wonderful article in Change Seven (an online journal) called “Why Iris Murdoch?” Corey loves Murdoch… says…
I had a hard time choosing a title for this post because the subject matter is dripping with delicious verbal…