by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 8, 2019 | acknowledgments |
I loved Robin Black’s story collection, If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This, but I fell hard for her debut novel, Life Drawing. Really, how could I not adore the story of a marriage between a painter and a writer written with lots of interiority and lots of...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 6, 2019 | acknowledgments |
Here’s how long I’ve been writing. Anyone else remember the old manuscript boxes? I would print out whatever novel was ready to go and carefully lay it in the manuscript box with a letter on top, then drive to the FedEx office, where this tall guy with red...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Aug 1, 2019 | How We Spend Our Days |
Annie Dillard wrote, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” On the first of each month, Catching Days hosts a guest writer in the series, “How We Spend Our Days.” Today, please welcome writer ANDRE DUBUS III. I wake with the touch of lips,...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 31, 2019 | acknowledgments, Tidal Flats |
Joshua Mohr is a wonderful writer and a wonderful human being. His smile will make all your troubles fall away. The dedication to his memoir Sirens, my favorite book of his, reads as follows: For those of us who want to do better. Josh had three strokes before he...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jul 30, 2019 | acknowledgments, mfa, Writing by Writers |
When I started writing in January of 1997, I had no idea what I was doing. It would be a number of stories and three novels later before I started writing Tidal Flats in January of 2013. So there’s the story of all the people who helped make Tidal Flats a real...
