Uncategorized
-
Wolf Moon
This was the week of the Wolf Moon, the first full moon in January, but it is also sometimes called the Ice Moon, or Snow Moon, which is more apt for this particular week when violent snowstorms have tranformed much of the Eastern Seaboard. Our property gently slopes down to a small lake, fed from one end by a river, and emptying from the other into the Long Island Sound. Around here they call it a “lagoon” which I find endlessly amusing, as to my mind a lagoon is a tropical thing, all flashing colored fish and clear cerulean water. A mermaid or two. Palm trees. Our lagoon is frozen,…
-
The 2015 Rash Award for Fiction and How this Writer Received the News
Ok, a bit of a brag, but last weekend began with a big surprise….a call from the editor of the Broad River Review informing me that one of my stories had just won their 2015 Rash Award for Fiction. This was obviously a very happy moment for me, but my initial joy was heightened by two things. Not only had I heard my cellphone ringing, but I had dared to answer it. I have a rather uneasy relationship with my phone. I do not suffer it, and telephone calls in general, gladly, and I am convinced that this comes partly from spending my childhood in South Africa, and partly from my dislike of being beholden to anything. When I was growing up…
-
Gardening in the Apocalypse (Archive of Currently Reading June 2015)
Do you, like me, have books piled up in precarious towers all over your house? Mine are everywhere, on my nightstand, in the living room, on the floor in my study, on the kitchen counter and, of course, in what the French so sweetly call “le petit coin” …. I am a self-confessed polygamous reader. How on earth can I be satisfied with one when there are so many others out there? And here, dear bibliophiles, are the best of the current miscellany. I plan to update it weekly. In first place is The Wonder Garden by Lauren Acampora, a fellow Brown grad. It’s is a beautifully crafted offering of interwoven short stories set in…