Day of the Dead Today, November 1—and evidently also tomorrow, November 2—are the days set aside by many to celebrate…
Every writer, like everybody else, thinks he’s living through the crisis of the ages. To write honestly and with all…
The Power of One: Sister Anne Brooks and the Tutwiler Clinic I was honored to interview Sally Palmer Thomason and…
What, and How Are They Doing? For the past two weeks I’ve posted entries from 13 authors who contributed essays…
This week has been busy with WRITING! I just finished the tenth and final story for my linked short story…
The 2018 Mississippi Book Festival is this Saturday, August 18! Here’s the SCHEDULE. This will be my second year…
This week I will be joining four of the twenty-six contributors to SOUTHERN WRITERS ON WRITING at two events in…
I hope you’ve been following my series of excerpts from SOUTHERN WRITERS ON WRITING (coming from University Press of Mississippi…
I hope you’ve been following my series of excerpts from SOUTHERN WRITERS ON WRITING (coming from University Press of Mississippi…
Last week I shared excerpts from essays by four of the twenty-six contributors to SOUTHERN WRITERS ON WRITING (coming from…