Irish Writers: A Book from Every County

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with 32 Books by Irish Authors Looking to add a little green to your reading list? In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, here’s a list of books by Irish writers from every county in Ireland. I haven’t read […]

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Favorite Writers on Film

What’s your favorite movie about writers or writing? I’m watching End of the Tour about David Foster Wallace. I’m going to have to finally read Infinite Jest, aren’t I? I’m on pace to exceed my 52 books in 2018 reading goal, so […]

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My Top 12 Writing Resources

This is a picture of a fraction of my books on writing, but it really does represent a good cross-section of my collection. I think they’re a little something for everyone here. Some of them are older, but I linked them to […]

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The Perfect Place to Write

What would be your ideal place to write? I think about this a lot. It frequently involves me living in the 1920s, maybe in Paris as Hemingway and Fitzgerald did. I’d roll out of the rumpled bed in my flat, and head […]

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Readers, Are You Reading?

I’ve been an avid reader for decades but lately I find that I get sidetracked all the time with a million other things. Most notably in recent years, the Internet. I read, I read all day. I read websites, I read blogs, […]

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Hemingway Summer

I had never read any of Ernest Hemingway’s work until this past year when I read A Movable Feast in preparation to read A Paris Wife. I always considered him a man’s writer, a misogynist and a drunk. Mind you, this judgment […]

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