The Week that Was

A quick glimpse back at the week just passed:    MONDAY Work.   TUESDAY Interview by Alison Cuddy on Chicago’s NPR station WBEZ for the morning news and culture show 848. Tuesday Funk at Hopleaf, with fellow readers Emile Ferris, John Klima, Hanna Martine, Jody Lynn Nye, and Bill Shunn.   WEDNESDAY Work.   THURSDAY […]

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 […]

More Bull on the Short Story

                    On NPR’s Weekend Edition last Saturday, May 21, 2011, while talking with Roddy Doyle about his new story collection, Bullfighting, the usually savvy Scott Simon asked: “Do you write short stories just to warm up these days?” “No, not at all,” Doyle answered (thank God.) He went […]

On Story and Family

Spring break felt deliciously well-earned after Columbia College Chicago Fiction Writing Department’s Story Week Festival of Writers. I was honored to be part of it; thrilled to read–for the first time anywhere–from an actual copy of my new book, The Temple of Air; humbled to be part of the line-up of the 2nd Story event […]