Eighties pop phenomenon Rick Springfield is back in the headlines with a tell-all memoir
Late, Late at Night, Rick Springfield’s tell-all memoir, opens with a seventeen-year-old Rick swinging from a noose, convinced his life is not worth living. Happily for Rick, as well as…
Sonny Brewer assembles an astonishing pool of Southern writers to reflect on their day jobs
It’s an adage drummed into beginning writers from the hallowed yellow barns of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference to the humblest classroom of the Hardeman County Correctional Facility: write what…
Adam Ross snags a rare two-week appearance on NPT’s A Word on Words
October 19, 2010 It’s an authorial feather many writers never get to add to their caps at all: an invitation to appear on legendary journalist John Seigenthaler’s NPT program, A…
Poet Reid Ward contemplates life, love, and responsibility from the confines of his “cage”
Reid Ward is a preacher’s kid, and like of lot of so-called “PK”s he’s a natural-born insurgent. During high school, Ward was bright and likeable but was more committed to…
The protagonist of Susan Straight’s new novel can’t escape the past until she understands it
Traversing both the gentrified pockets and gangstaland of Los Angeles, as well as the sugar-cane fields and sweltering swampland of Louisiana, Susan Straight’s new novel is a complex work of…
For ten years, Ann Patchett had a sweet gig with the now-defunct Gourmet magazine
October 18, 2010 In an essay for The Wall Street Journal, Ann Patchett remembers the decade she spent freelancing for Gourmet magazine, when “Magazine work was a beautiful party and…
