Something Besides Latte-Making ~ Chris L. Terry’s View From the Keyboard

Each year, The Chicago Reader publishes a fiction issue of its weekly newspaper. The editors get hundreds of fiction submissions, and have to choose a very small numbers of stories to publish. This year, Chris L. Terry’s evocative and tasty story, “Red Velvet,” is among those editors’ picks. Chris also happens to be another of Columbia […]

Egg Salad Stains and Holden Caulfield ~ J. D. Salinger and a View From the Keyboard

60 years ago, J. D. Salinger published The Catcher in the Rye, the American classic that made many of us want to write our own stories and tell the secret societal truths like Holden did, while we hid our anguish with urbane and witty banter. Today, as a celebration of this remarkable work of fiction, I bring […]