Donald Trump is ruining my fiction-writing career. As if it had ever really gotten started. I retired two years ago to exchange my journalism credentials for a license “to make it all up.” Then came Trump. Every time I got cranked up on a great American short story, or got another personal essay out of …
It’s tougher than you might think, being retired and trying to find a second wind as some kind of creative writer — an ambition I call, after 41 years as a newspaper reporter and editor, “Making It All Up.” For one thing, it seems to require discipline, which is a bit of shock to …
This writer said this 15 years ago: Paris Review/Summer 2000 No. 155 T. Coraghessan Boyle, The Art of Fiction No. 161 (click on this for the full interview). Interviewed by Elizabeth E. Adams INTERVIEWER Do you think it would be possible for a writer today to have the sort of success Dickens had? To be …
After wrestling with life-and-death questions involving bacon, the Good Friday pilgrimage to Chimayo and the opening of the Trinity atomic bomb test site, I chose Cheerios for breakfast and felt righteous until my worst blood sugar crash since Larry Calloway and I encountered space aliens deep in the Weminuche Wilderness. Today, I started the day …
Neighbor who lives above Orno Creek reports by email this Sunday morning that a black bear climbed over the wall to his back porch at 12:30 a.m. Bear described as “pretty large and very agile.” This report on feral horses in New Mexico and the West came in the New York Times this morning: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/11/us/on-fate-of-wild-horses-stars-and-ndians-spar.html?hp&_r=0 Continuing …
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