Wilbur Frank McNair ~ May 8, 1919 – October 11, 1974
My father died forty three years ago today. Do we ever stop missing those people we love and lose? In memory of him, I offer this paragraph from my essay “Finding my Father and the FBI,” recently published in my brand new book out from Side Street Press, And These Are the Good Times, and […]
Good Times Today!!!
And These Are the Good Times, Patricia Ann McNair From Booklist, 9/1/2017: “Short story writer McNair (The Temple of Air, 2011) proves to be an irresistible personal essayist of refreshing candor, vibrant openheartedness, rueful humor, and unassuming wisdom. In the title piece, which opens this companionable, down-to-earth collection, young McNair joins her beloved father at Sullivan’s, […]
Good Times Tomorrow!
I watched as my mother selected things we needed (bread, milk, cigarettes) and put them in the cart. I watched her consider things we didn’t need but would like (steaks, orange juice, cookies), and choose a few of those as well. She calculated, the prices slipping over her lips like a murmur. ~ From “Saturday Shopping” […]
Good Times in Two Days
“I Go on Running” trailer “And These Are the Good Times” trailer And These Are the Good Times, Patricia Ann McNair In just two days, I will be celebrating the launch of my second book, And These Are the Good Times, with friends and family and with the wonderful folks from Side Street Press, my publisher. In honor […]
Good Times in Three Days
I overheard a friend recently say that every woman is afraid every day…. “Your characters are so stupid,” the woman said…. Two weeks in Paris, Philip and I. And These Are the Good Times, Patricia Ann McNair In just three days, I will be celebrating the launch of my second book, And These Are the Good Times, with […]
Good Times in Four Days
“unselfconsciously sexy” & “arrestingly good” & “superbly well-crafted essays” & “prose is luminous” And These Are the Good Times, Patricia Ann McNair In just four days, I will be celebrating the launch of my second book, And These Are the Good Times, with friends and family and with the wonderful folks from Side Street Press, my publisher. In […]
Good Times in Five Days
I regret that when we were children on a plane flying with our family from Spain to Portugal, while he slept I took the postcard Roger had written to our grandparents from the seat pocket in front of him and erased what he had written. ~ From “Roger the Dodger” And These Are the Good […]
Good Times in Six Days
This place that is settled somewhere between what is real and what is imagined is where I come to do my work; this is where I live my storied life. ~ From “A Storied Life” And These Are the Good Times, Patricia Ann McNair In just six days, I will be celebrating the launch of my […]
Good Times in Seven Days
Loneliness, my friends, is a scary thing. But here’s what I know now: it can be a good thing, too, being alone in the woods in a two-room cabin with snow outside and black squirrels like ink blots on white, and you’re so far away from the noise of the city where planes can crash […]
Good Times in Nine Days
No one talks all that much in public, in that polite-society way we North Americans, we midwesterners especially, do. ~ From “Your Comfortable Shopping” And These Are the Good Times, Patricia Ann McNair In just nine days, I will be celebrating the launch of my second book, And These Are the Good Times, with friends and family and […]