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When I hear myself praising a book these days, the things I seem to be really appreciating is a fearlessness when it comes to compassion a...

One, really? I could do five with some level of comfort, but one is nearly impossible. But if I have to do one I guess it has to be Toni M...

The best memoirs—like   This Boy’s Life , or   Crazy Brave  [by Joy Harjo], for instance—bring you through a private river of storytelling...

What made Madeleine sit up in bed was something closer to the reason she read books in the first place and had always loved them. Here wa...

I’m looking for fiction in which a heart struggles against itself, in which the messy unmanageable complexity of the world is revealed. Se...

I would say to get the character in your mind. Once he is in your mind, and he is right, and he’s true, then he does the work himself. All...

I used to stop by the Creativity Explored Gallery when  lived around the corner. I'd check out the current show, maybe buy cards or gi...

Sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast and brewing coffee and listening to music that for some rea...

It is still news to her that passion could steer her wrong though she went down, a thousand times strung out across railroad tracks, off b...

The book comes out a week from today and it's been thrilling and odd and unsettling. Lots of bloggers and reviewers got the book early...

All the books are now 60% off, but Andrew McKinley, among the kindest and most generous bookstore owners on earth, will still try and m...

The right structure and the right question is: “How do you make your family hungry?” from A Simple Way to Create Suspense by Lee Child in ...

Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem Here’s what I’ve got, the reasons why our marriage might work: Because you wear ...

How like an island we are in love encouraging moss & like an island we are barely moving Just to exist takes much concentration & ...

When I was a child I played by myself in a corner of the schoolyard all alone. I hated dolls and I hated games, animals were not ...

You say that everything is very simple and interesting it makes me feel very wistful, like reading a great                             ...

When I teach, I tell my students: Write. Trust your own voice, your own instincts. Learn your own process. Write. Learn what works for...

I write for the same reason I read: to free fall into a story and live in that world for a while. My novels begin in tiny glimmers—of char...

I stood listening to that musical vibration from my lofty slope, to those flashes of separate cries with a kind of demure murmur for backg...

And the stories we tell ourselves are not the only stories. Uses for Boys Are you in Portland? I'm going to be at Wordstock on Octo...