One of the toughest things that people ask me on a regular basis is what The Great American Desert is about. It’s a rather...
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Bloomsbury and Seasonal Affective Disorder
I used to find it almost impossible to start a book and not finish it. You want to know how it turns out, right? You don’t...
How to Write
Somehow I’ve survived another week of writing instruction. My 3rd graders are enthusiastic and clever, but something usually...
Losing the Reader
Changing the rules is not by any means the only way to lose a reader. Aldous Huxley, who is a masterly writer, does a textbook...
Ornithology and Birds
I have just begun Cyril Connolly’s Enemies of Promise, which, like Orwell’s “Inside the Whale,” is an examination of the state...