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My friend Shannon Yarbrough has an amazing daily gardening blog on his author website. He takes exquisite picture of the flowers and plants in his garden in Missouri, particularly irises and lilies. I thought I would share. (I can never … Continue reading
Richard Yates (1926-1992), the author of Revolutionary Road and other novels, was a damaged man who produced beautiful, bleak books while he indulged his addictions and was in and out of mental hospitals due to frequent mental breakdowns (Yates was … Continue reading
As we usher in June, I decided to reblog this from the site Interesting Literature in honor of Thomas Hardy’s birthday today. He was an odd, elusive man, so perhaps it’s no surprise that he was a Gemini! As a … Continue reading
When I was an ardent young intellectual in the early ’90s, I took a class on Modernist Women Writers with the poet Kathleen Fraser at SFSU. One of our assignments was to do “a close reading” of our writer of … Continue reading
I’ve always been fascinated by gender diversity. A memoir has just been published that explores what happens when one partner in a long-term lesbian relationship transitions to being a man. What surprised me about Queerly Beloved (Bold Strokes Books, May 2014, $9.99 … Continue reading
Disclaimer: I haven’t read Bob Mayer’s books, but I always like his trenchant advice. Nos. 8 and 9 on this list particularly spoke to me.
Happy Easter! It’s nice to look out the window into the sunny garden as I type. I’m happy to be able to post The Fussy Librarian’s seal of approval on my blog. The Fussy Librarian is a free subscription service … Continue reading
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