Books

  • F-Bomb

    Yesterday, David Ignatius, the award-winning columnist for the Washington Post published an editorial about Bob Woodward’s new book, Fear: Trump in the White House. Entitled, “What a Baby,” Ignatius’s editorial shares his opinion about the book and how: Woodward’s recounting of… Continue reading

    F-Bomb
  • Magic Horse

    Yesterday I imagined walking into the lobby of the Bread Loaf Inn in the Green Mountains near Middleburg, Vermont to register as a general contributor at the 2018 Bread Loaf Writers Conference. I imagined quickly signing up for the workshops… Continue reading

    Magic Horse
  • Without Donald Hall

    Donald Hall, one of my favorite poets and the husband of another of my favorite poets — Jane Kenyon — died this past Saturday. He was 89 — the age my mother was when she died earlier this year. Hall… Continue reading

    Without Donald Hall
  • The Grace of Books

    “Books saved my life,” writes Kevin Powers, a novelist and veteran of the war in Iraq in a recent New York Times column (6/16/18), though he is not sure how they did. “Utterly adrift” since participating “in the fiasco that was the… Continue reading

    The Grace of Books