Thanks! Great books to look into. For me: Novel-EASTBOUND by Maylis de Kerangal. Short stories: (older book) Sam Shepard’s GREAT DREAM OF HEAVEN. And anything by Claire Keegan. She is marvelous!
Hi Michelle, Thanks for this. I hope you’ll look at my most recent novel, The Moment Before, that tells of a Parisian artist whose New York gallery receives a painting by her that may be her masterpiece. The trouble is, she has no memory of having painted it. Available on order everywhere.
Fascinating list.....I would add two by Pulitzer Prize recipient, former U.S. Poet Laureate, librettist, Harvard prof, etc., etc. Tracy K. Smith: ORDINARY LIGHT (about growing up in Fairfield, CA; she makes a suburban town into a whole world) and the recent, highly touted TO FREE THE CAPTIVES (a reflection on racial issues and how she came to understand them through researching her family history). She was interviewed recently by Mina Kim on KQED's "Forum" and also on S.F.'s City Arts and Lectures series, plus in the NYT and WP and elsewhere. A remarkable writer and person. "Full Disclosure": She was my high school English class student.
Thanks! Great books to look into. For me: Novel-EASTBOUND by Maylis de Kerangal. Short stories: (older book) Sam Shepard’s GREAT DREAM OF HEAVEN. And anything by Claire Keegan. She is marvelous!
Hi Michelle, Thanks for this. I hope you’ll look at my most recent novel, The Moment Before, that tells of a Parisian artist whose New York gallery receives a painting by her that may be her masterpiece. The trouble is, she has no memory of having painted it. Available on order everywhere.
Fascinating list.....I would add two by Pulitzer Prize recipient, former U.S. Poet Laureate, librettist, Harvard prof, etc., etc. Tracy K. Smith: ORDINARY LIGHT (about growing up in Fairfield, CA; she makes a suburban town into a whole world) and the recent, highly touted TO FREE THE CAPTIVES (a reflection on racial issues and how she came to understand them through researching her family history). She was interviewed recently by Mina Kim on KQED's "Forum" and also on S.F.'s City Arts and Lectures series, plus in the NYT and WP and elsewhere. A remarkable writer and person. "Full Disclosure": She was my high school English class student.