When you publish a book, the author is often asked for several “comparative titles” or “competitive titles” to use in…
What a wonderful collection! The temptation for those who are on pilgrimage is to become a tourist, collecting junk and…
Social Media Threads I’m Liking this Month If you watch the Kelly Clarkson Show, you know that at the end…
Nonfiction 23: Fiction 20 This is my third year to compile an end-of-year list of the books I read during…
Expeditions into Devotion I fell in love with Sonja Livingston the first time I met her. That was back in…
Last week I shared excerpts from essays by four of the twenty-six contributors to SOUTHERN WRITERS ON WRITING (coming from…
The second annual MidSouth Book Festival took place September 9-13 at Playhouse on the Square and Circuit Playhouse in midtown…
I just finished a wonderful book by my friend Sonja Livingston, who teaches writing at the University of Memphis. I…
I love anthologies. Two of my dozen or so published essays appear in anthologies—“Chiaroscuro: Shimmer and Shadow,” in Circling Faith:…