Michael Cunningham’s name is almost inevitably linked with three things: his third novel, The Hours; the Pulitzer Prize he won…
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It Keeps Going and Going and….
…and the truth is that the Energizer Bunny has nothing on us! A crack staff and extensive team of volunteers…
Continue reading →D.C. Noir 2: The Classics
Quick note between Fall for the Book postings: Today’s Washington Post published my review of the new anthology, D.C. Noir…
Continue reading →Fall for the Book Hits the Halfway Mark
As Fall for the Book’s third day unfolded on campus and around the region, I spent most of the day…
Continue reading →Bausch, Baxter, Carlson, Cheuse & Percy
Monday’s night’s event with Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe drew more than 1,200 readers to George Mason’s Fairfax Campus. The event…
Continue reading →Fall for the Book Gets Off to Great Start — and More to Come!
Despite being largely overshadowed (in some corners of the press, at least) by the National Book Festival next week, Fall…
Continue reading →Fall for the Book Begins Sunday!
…and in the process, my own life — and my occasional posts here — will likely get put on hold…
Continue reading →A Death in the News
Since David Foster Wallace’s death last week, writers and critics around the world have been examining anew Wallace’s influence on…
Continue reading →Exercising Twice in the Same Week?
After borrowing a couple of exercises from Natalie Goldberg’s latest for my last post, I trotted out another great writing…
Continue reading →Jump-starting the Writing Day (or Night)
“A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people,” said Thomas Mann, and…
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