3.3.2013 Journal Prompt

March 3, 2013: …in the cool of the A & P, under the fluorescent lights, against all those stacked packages… (from John Updike’s “A&P”)

Something Dignified and Heroic ~ Gerard Woodward on Earning as a Writer

For the past few months, the novelist and short story writer Gerard Woodward has been writer-in-residence at Columbia College Chicago. It has been a great joy to have him spend time with us, and we will miss him. But Bath, England is home for Gerard, and so he must return. Through the magic of the internet, […]

A Sweet Can ~ A View From John Updike’s Keyboard

“In walks these three girls in nothing but bathing suits. I’m in the third checkout slot, with my back to the door, so I don’t see them until they’re over by the bread. The one that caught my eye first was the one in the plaid green two-piece. She was a chunky kid, with a […]