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I have always loved Anne Sexton. She suffered from mental illness, but her therapist , Dr. Martin Orne, encouraged her to take up poetr...

Every once in a while, there is a writerly discussion about how some writers write from inspiration, “following their pen,” writing page...

Gerry Hadden's Never the Hope Itself: Love and Ghosts in Latin American and Haiti is one remarkable book. A young radio reporter about...

Lynne Bryant 's  Alligator Lake, is an extraordinary novel about Southern racism. I'm thrilled and honored to have her on my blo...

Want to have fun? The sublime  Anita Diamant  , author of The Red Tent, Day After Night and ten more fantastic books, interviews the my...

I'm completed thrilled to post this blog, for many, many reasons. I don't remember when I first had contact with Annie--I think...

Doesn't everyone have a Madonna Story? When Laura Barcella graciously invited me to be a part of her new anthology Madonn...

Lesley McDowell 's Between the Sheets is the kind of fascinating book you carry around with you because you can't stop reading ...

Samuel Park's This Burns My Heart, about a young South Korean woman trapped in an unhappy marriage,  is one of my favorite novels of...