My longest sentence
For some reason I’m struggling to get some work done on my new novel and Hope Hicks resigned yesterday and Jared Kushner’s security clearance was downgraded, gosh darn… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Life
Father’s Day Redux
I was five or six when my father walked out for the last time, so if there was any observation of Father’s Day in our home while he… Read more »
Hanging On While Letting Go
Life, it seems to me, is predominantly about letting go; letting go of the warmth and protection of the womb, the nourishment of the umbilical cord; letting go… Read more »
Pedantic Grumpery Be Gone! (for a minute)
OK, I complain a lot. I criticize. I tend to notice what’s wrong—with movies, books, ideas, with plans, structures, phones, bicycles, sentences (at least other people’s), computers, people,… Read more »
Being Human
There are aspects of each of us that others rarely see—the dark impulses of the virtuous and principled, the warmth concealed or repressed in the distant and unemotional,… Read more »
Ways of Leaving
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Chase Stoller is a beautifully mangled all-American mess. Jarrett’s ability to paint a picture of the tedium of small town America, and then to drop a character into this (Hannah) that’s right out of a Wyeth painting, well that sealed the deal for me. With pitch perfect dialogue and writing that felt like a perfect Indian summer day, "Ways Of Leaving" was that rare book that when I read the last word on the last page…I went back to page 1 and read it all over again.