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Round up of range-riding writing
Golden Age Western Comics press photo We’re heading out to the plains, the Rio Grande, the Four Corners and the western badlands on the next book club call in. On Friday, September 27, John Ernst and I...
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Lightweight reading: part 3
Betsy writing on a beach along the Selway River (from an earlier trip). Admiral Richard Byrd writes about solitude in his 1938 memoir ALONE. I read a battered copy of ALONE a few summers ago when I was...
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Booking around Kingston, pt. 1
What makes a book reviewer’s heart beat faster? Being on the road heading toward a Writers’ festival. In this case, the Kingston Writersfest, a four-day, fifty-two event extravaganza. I invited my...
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Booking around Kingston, pt. 2
I felt guilty when I rushed toward my author interview with Wayne Grady as I’d only had time to read a few pages of his new novel, Emancipation Day, a book that explores what it might have meant to...
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On Richard Rodriguez
Listen to Chris Robinson’s conversation with Richard Rodriguez Richard Rodriguez at the Pacific News Service 40th Anniversary Celebration in 2010. Photo: New American Media, Creative Commons, some...
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Gish Jen: we vs. me
Community garden. Photo: Travis Estell It’s dangerous for me to walk past the Browsing section in the St. Lawrence Library. I feel myself drawn toward those shelves, where shiny book jackets flash and...
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Doris Lessing and me
Doris Lessing, at the Cologne Lit festival in 2006. Photo: Elke Wetzig No, I was not Doris Lessing’s friend. I never met her, I never even attended a reading by her. But the news of her death yesterday...
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A conversation with James McBride
Yesterday it was announced that James McBride had won a National Book Award for his novel The Good Lord Bird, a tale told from the point of view of a teenage slave participating in John Brown’s 1859...
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Creeping out young adults: Barbara Stewart, “The In-Between”
I’m happy that there is this relatively new genre of fiction devoted to young adults; at least until I try to figure out how old or young you have to be to fit this category. I have a daughter who was...
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The Book Club is moving
Photo: University of the Fraser Valley, Creative Commons, come rights reserved NCPR is ending the Readers & Writers Book Club blog as a standalone destination. Subsequent posts about books and...
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