Some people, well…a lot of people…like to think they can manipulate things like romantic love–even how and when love will arrive. I have personally known people to do the following in order to bring love to their door. They… Lit... more »
Gervasio Sanchez/Associated Press PLAY for me as a child involved a small workable washing machine; a bathroom mirror in which I would pretend I was on TV; a back lawn laced with plastic cups and small hand-built ramps to mini-golf... more »
When I first began to write GIRL IN THE ARENA, my answer to that question was always: Not much. But how do you write a book about a girl who lives in a violent culture, whose own family is at the... more »
End of June meant a week at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony on the Cape. My daughter Sienna and I loaded the car and headed south, listening to an Australian woman on the new GPS. (In Massachusetts there are no... more »
