I know that it's June and technically National Short Story Month has ended, but I don't want to wait another year to talk about short stories, and this is my blog, dammit, so I'm going to keep talking about short stories. I am well on my way into Lorrie Moore's captivating first collection of short… Continue reading Rambling at Length About Short Stories
Tag: John Cheever
Sequels
I've never written a sequel before. I've rarely read any sequels. If I rack my brain for those I have read, two come to mind. First, there is one of my top ten favorite novels of all time, John Cheever's The Wapshot Chronicle, which in true Cheever fashion explores and picks apart the eccentricities of… Continue reading Sequels
Back to the Source
I'm writing this from my parents' house in Central Washington. I'll blame my location for my late post. It's hard to focus on writing when you escape to a place of such comfort. Where my parents live now is fifteen minutes outside of the town I grew up in. When I return to Central Washington… Continue reading Back to the Source
Words of Wisdom
Yesterday afternoon I traveled to Oregon City, Oregon to attend the Compose Creative Writing Conference. This wasn't my first conference, but this was the first time I had been invited as a speaker rather than an attendee. As one of Clackamas Literary Review's authors (my short story, "The Closing of Joe's Bar" will appear in… Continue reading Words of Wisdom
