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The old bank in the town where I grew up is for sale. Oh, how I long to buy it, and set up house there on the wide, lazy river near Bartlett’s Wharf. The bank was still open a few hours, a few days a week, when I was a small girl, to provide banking…
This is the beginning of a story – the opening ‘note’ of a story about Matilda, a young girl whose life becomes entangled in the life of the orphan king, Edward VI. This story takes place during a time in English history that never quite happened. Here are some things you may already know, if…
Maurice Sendak has passed away. Let the rumpus start. May he rest not in peace, but in some wild, affectionate place, where the monsters are his friends and he is their king. May he continue to roar his terrible roars and gnash his terrible teeth and roll his terrible eyes and show his terrible claws….
As you probably already know, in a recent act of outstanding idiocy, the new Premier of Queensland withdrew funding for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards. Plenty of people have posted detailed and intelligent responses to this outrage, while I’ve been offline, so I won’t add my indignant restating of their valid critique of his position…
George Whitman passed away yesterday, in a room above his bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, on the Rue de Bucherie, Paris.
Today, I was reading Barry Lopez’s essay ‘Landscape and Narrative’ from the collection Crossing Open Ground. Lots to think about here, but two things that I want to come back to, and think about some more: A story draws on relationships in the exterior landscape and projects them onto the interior landscape. The purpose of…
Loving a child is a dangerous thing. I think I knew this at the beginning, with my first daughter, when they laid her in my arms. But then again, not really. You can know things and not know them at the same time. I don’t know how this can be true, but I believe that…
I have a new story in the December issue of Fantasy Magazine. The magazine is online, so you can get the issue online and read an interview about the story as well on December 5. The magazine is a little unusual and innovative in its format. Each week they publish one story and one interview,…
When there are writers like this in the world. People, thinkers, feelers. Why bother interjecting, commenting, writing. This is what there is to say. And this is how to say it.