The Miseducation of Cameron Post: Literary Quality YA
The film The Miseducation of Cameron Post based on the YA novel of the same name won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Festival. I’m naive enough about the judgment of critics to think that this meant they would all … Continued
Fiction and School Libraries: What Happens When We Neglect Story
Schooled An issue that has been on my mind for years. My essay in the Eckleburg Review. We should be encouraging students to read fiction for many reasons. Supporting school libraries helps to ensue that we do.
Kristen Lamb’s disgust with the F.E.C.A.L matter of publishing
In the following blog post, Kristen Lamb expresses something I’ve thought about for awhile, but about which I don’t have the experience or authority to speak. She certainly doesn’t pull any punches. Thought it might interest other writers. Operation F.E.C.A.L: … Continued
Tim Winton’s “Breath” as exemplary lyricism and storytelling
Because I am something of a media moron, I just found out that Tim Winton’s short novel Breath has been made into a movie directed by Simon Baker and was released on June 1. In an interview for FilmInk Magazine, … Continued
The Value of Mentors: ‘Literature on the Lawn’
Flyer for the teen ‘Literature on the Lawn’ reading. Mentor Through Celebration As all the work and celebration of the teen issue of the Inlandia: A Literary Journey Journal concludes, I want to reflect one more time on the value … Continued
Living the Three R’s in Tiferet Journal
So happy to get a copy of the spring/summer issue of Tiferet in the mail today. My essay “ Living the Three R’s—Rejection, Reconciliation, Renewal” is included. When I wrote it, I was reading the philosopher William James (brother of … Continued
Props for the Teen Issue of Inlandia
Still in the crazy space, but on the upside, there was this fun article about the teen issue of Inlandia Literary Journeys Journal in the Press Enterprise. I was interviewed, as were Cati Porter (executive director of Inlandia Institute) and three … Continued
The Teen Issue of Inlandia is Live!
The All-Teen Issue Has Launched!
An Author’s Brand—Some Helpful Hints
I’m living through silting layers of bad news recently. I worked on an essay about sources in nature that help me to make sense of my interior world and thought I’d post it here—but my essay on how to make … Continued
Louisa May Alcott’s “Little Women”: Tending the Creative Attic
Falling in Love with “Little Women” The first book I fell in love with was written long before the word feminism was in common use. Louisa May Alcott was the daughter of high-minded parents and her novel, Little Women, was … Continued