In writing about writing, I’ve recently reviewed Burn Man by Mark Jarman for The Temz Review; it’s in their new spring issue.
In reading about writing, I am enjoying Black Women Writers at Work, a 2023 reprint of Claudia Tate’s interviews.
In reading about reading, I’ve just finished rereading Peter Orner’s Am I Alone Here? and Still No Word from You. Still love them.
And, in writing about reading, I’m still researching E.L. Konigsburg, whose From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler sparked many daydreams about being able to live undetected in a museum. (She wrote a lot!)
The city was ugly just before the pop and sparkle of spring.
Sheila Murray’s Finding Edward
I don’t seem to be getting notifications, but with a half hour to spare I thought I’d check to see what I missed. Loved the way you captured the atmosphere in The Beauty of Us – there were resonances with Gurnah’s After Lives, which I am currently reading, when a narrator in a new town finds himself in the midst of competing calls to prayer.
I didn’t get a notification about your comment either: too bad internet, we see through your shenangans!
Thank you kindly. I’m looking foward to seeing where you spotted some connections.