Not A Nature Writer ~ An Update on John McNally’s View From the Keyboard

John McNally, the very fine writer of After The Workshop, The Creative Writer’s Survival Guide, Troublemakers (one of my favorite short story collections) and lots of other books, shared his View From the Keyboard with us quite a while ago. Since then, a number of things have changed in John’s life, among them his View. […]

A Place on the Shelf ~ On Personal Libraries and a Civil Union

We were at a party on Saturday, celebrating the civil union of two friends, Kathie and Nikki, (congratulations, you two!) and wandering around their lovely condo, checking things out. As you do. These women are well-educated, highly accomplished, world-loving, and talented, so you can imagine the cool things they had in their pad. Real art. […]

The Kindness of Strangers ~ Tennessee Williams at the Keyboard

Finally, a writer who looks a bit like the rest of us: disheveled, a little bleary-eyed, and a mess of papers on his desk. Here Tennessee Williams is hard at the writing thing (or so it appears.) The kindness of strangers–this time folks on the internet who posted this image for me to find–bring you a […]

John McNally and the 3 Stooges ~ View From the Keyboard

I first heard of John McNally when his collection Troublemakers was published a few years back. I was particularly intrigued with the way his narrators and main characters look at the world, how they navigate all those things they think they know, those things they want to believe, and those many, many things they may […]