It was a privilege and a pleasure to get to know novelist Thomas McGonigle while at the Times, and it's been a privilege to keep knowing him ever since. Recently, University of Notre Dame Press brought out his novel, St. Patrick's Day: Another Day in Dublin, which is also the recipient of the 2016 Notre Dame … Continue reading Critical Reading: ‘St. Patrick’s Day’ on St. Patrick’s Day
Category: Writing
A-holes: What kind of writer are you?
I've been away for a long time, my beloved friends. A new day job and the weird, twilight frenzy of revising my novel (if you go into the dictionary and look up the word "palimpsest," I'm sure it says "for an example, see Nick's book") -- it has been impossible for me to keep up, … Continue reading A-holes: What kind of writer are you?
Getting published … an author’s stats on herself
Everyone has an opinion about the ordeal of book publishing, but who can you really trust? Only the writers who have actually experienced it. And that applies to Yi Shun Lai, author of the new novel Not A Self-Help Book: The Misadventures of Marty Wu (Shade Mountain Press), although "new" is a misleading term …. Lai is perfectly transparent on her … Continue reading Getting published … an author’s stats on herself
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