"Have you ever heard of a guy named Proust?" So begins Keep the Ends Loose by Molly D. Campbell, who, I must disclose, is a writer I met several years ago on a creative retreat. I have followed her adventures ever since, joyfully reading her work, both because of her talent … [Read more...]
Book Review: Everybody Has Everything by Katrina Onstad
You know how there are so many, SO MANY, novels out there that make you cry and think about terrible things and yet you can't put them down because the writing is so beautiful or the story is so amazing or, conversely, the writing is so awful that you can't believe someone … [Read more...]
Elizabeth Gilbert’s “The Signature of All Things”
I saw Liz Gilbert speak at the Malibu Public Library last June with my friend Melanie. It was a perfect location, of course, yet also strangely comic, populated as it was with the type of elderly Malibu resident who goes to all of the free events at the library, and so are … [Read more...]