Writer. Contributing Editor at The Discarded Image. Digital Content Strategist. Here's where I publicly explore the books I'm reading, the projects I'm working on, and other current interests. Category Archives for Festival of Faith & Writing
The Wednesday Wars
The year is 1967, and Holling Hoodhood is in Mrs. Baker’s seventh grade class, the only Presbyterian in his Jewish and Catholic Long Island neighborhood. This means that on Wednesday afternoons, when all the other students are off to Hebrew … Continue reading
Ursula, Under
Two-year-old Ursula, half Finnish and half Chinese, falls into an abandoned mine shaft during a family vacation in Michigan. Emergency crews set up rescue operations; media cameras and reporters move in; gawkers start parking their RVs and station wagons along … Continue reading
Abide with Me
Elizabeth Strout’s Abide with Me is one of the novels I selected for my pre-Festival reading and my first encounter with Strout, whose previous (and first) novel Amy and Isabelle received positive reviews from many critics. The center of Abide … Continue reading
Diary of a Festival: Day 3
And now we come to the end. Festival 2008 is officially concluded. Retrospective comments will undoubtedly be forthcoming, but this will be my last dispatch from the field. I hope the freshness of these reports has been worth their jumbled … Continue reading
Diary of a Festival: Day 2
A second day of literary immersion has drawn to a close. More sunshine. More handshaking. More exercising of body and mind as I sprint to the next session while ruminating on the last one. At some point on the meandering … Continue reading
