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November 29, 2009
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Irene Vilar at Sacramento State on Thursday

I spotted the full page advertisement for the release of Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an Abortion Addict in the December issue of The Writer’s Chronicle, and I bent it back at the spine, recognizing the name but not quite sure … Continue reading

November 19, 2009
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Reviewing Books

I just submitted my newest review to Sacramento and San Francisco Book Review: It is The Face in the Mirror: Writers Reflect on Their Dreams of Youth and the Reality of Age, Edited by Victoria Zackheim. It is an anthology of … Continue reading

November 9, 2009
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John Irving says

John Irving says: ~The reader must be afraid for someone in order for a story to succeed. ~We don’t get to choose our obsessions; obsessions choose us. ~People aren’t fated or logical in “real life” but in a plotted story … Continue reading

November 5, 2009
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John Irving is a master storyteller and I am his biggest fan

If you are a friend of mine, you know that on October 15 I finished reading the advance proof of  Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving for review. I loved the novel for its characters, of course, and … Continue reading