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 Ten Days
He loved to travel. ~ From “Finding My Father and the FBI” And These Are the Good Times, Patricia Ann McNair In just ten 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 Twelve Days
All he wanted was permission to pass, but still, you let him move you, and after, long after, you remembered leaning into those hands. ~ From “What You’ll Remember” And These Are the Good Times, Patricia Ann McNair In just twelve days, I will be celebrating the launch of my second book, And These Are the Good Times, with […]
On Distraction
As a full-time college teacher, I find that the summer is usually the time when I can deeply immerse myself in my writing projects. This year, though, I have taken on the role of Summer Director of MFA Programs in Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago, which means that I have to spend more days […]
The Whacky World Wide Web and A Book’s Launch
So a little less than one day in advance of the book launch of your debut story collection, you find yourself trolling the internet, Googling yourself (!) and the book’s title. This is how you discover that the interview you did with that gentleman from the news service that includes 500 small papers is out, […]