The Quivering Pen

Just now I can feel that little quivering of the pen which has always foreshadowed the happy delivery of a good book. --Emile Zola

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Wednesday, December 11, 2019

Writing Lessons From a Fellow Outlier: Dad’s Maybe Book by Tim O’Brien

Of all the books I read in 2019 (105 and counting, as of this writing), perhaps the one that surprised me the most was Dad’s Maybe Book ...

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Front Porch Books: November 2019 edition

Front Porch Books is a monthly tally of new and forthcoming books — mainly advance review copies (aka “uncorrected proofs” and “galleys”) ...

Thursday, October 31, 2019

A Ghost of an Autumn

Here in western Montana, climate change robbed us of our Fall. An early snowstorm on September 29 left us punched and reeling from an ...

Friday, August 16, 2019

When My Father Fell in Love With Annie Dillard

In 1975, my father read Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard and fell in love with both the book and its author. At the time, the R...

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Scary as Sheet: Ghost Stories For My Halloween

I live in a house that has good potential to breed ghosts. Built in 1920, the Craftsman home on a quiet tree-lined street in Butte, Mont...

Sunday, April 1, 2018

Quivering Pen: The Resurrection

Just like General MacArthur, a bad penny, and that ugly sweater you got from your Aunt Julie last Christmas, I have returned. For a va...

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