A Day in the Life ~ One Writer’s Tuesday, Funk and All

Every once in a while a day comes up when you feel like you might really be doing this author thing right. I had a day like this a couple of weeks ago when I had the opportunity to read in London at an event sponsored by the incredible Daunt Books at The Stag in […]

Immense and Startling Power ~ Raymond Carver’s View From the Keyboard

“It’s possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman’s earring—with immense, even startling power.” – Raymond Carver Back from England, where I spent an evening reading and talking about […]

Reading at The Stag, Hampstead, London ~ Thanks to Daunt Books

Philip Hartigan, my trusty photographer, uploaded this album of pictures from my reading at The Stag, a literary pub in Hampstead, north London, on Wednesday evening. Great event, great hosts (yay! Daunt Books Hampstead!), great fellow writers, great audience. Click on the picture below to open the album. Patricia Ann McNair, The Stag, London, 11/9/11