A Conversation on Craft with the Author of
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March 2, 2021
So often, writers read their friends’ manuscripts and galleys, squinting while nervously tapping a foot: Will they pull it off? Will they blow it? I mention drafts and galleys because when the book exists, what’s to worry about? It’s too late; all you can do is dwell on what worked, what’s good. But here, everything was good from the get-go: characters who could leap; a “stage” that smoldered in a different way, pre-earthquake. I could tell right away how different this was. I’ve found every previous book of Carol’s riveting, but
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Our nation and our democracy feel unsteady and wobbly these early winter days. With a sitting president who refuses to concede his office and honor the votes of over 80 million Americans, with embryonic fascists roaming the streets of the capitol and pummeling anyone who even looks like a “liberal,” and with a specious lawsuit of one state challenging the legitimacy of another state’s election, one would have to be entirely disconnected not to feel the tremors shaking our entire history and experiment as a country aspiring to be free and fair.
The state of our country reminds me of the words of the novelist James Salter writing about Ancient Rome when he said “this is imperial, this is lasting, this is gone.” In an irony almost too rich to be real, it is our Supreme Court, a third of whose justices were appointed by Donald Trump, that has coldly rebuked two lawsuits aimed at overturning what is widely considered to have been a fair election. With just a few bland words (li
Essay: Thinking about Karl Kilian - Houston s literary lion
Rich Levy
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Karl Kilian posed in Brazos Bookstore Monday March 13, 2006. He owned the independent bookstore for nearly 20 years.Sharon Steinmann, Staff / Houston Chronicle
When we moved to Houston in 1986 from Iowa City a writer-filled college town with the highest per capita number of indie bookstores and readings in the U.S. we were disappointed. Houston had far better food, it had Fiesta, it was amazingly diverse, but the book scene appeared to be dominated by big box stores not a happy situation. Until, around the corner from our rental house, we found Brazos Bookstore.