by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jun 14, 2010 | place, stories, time |
Nine stories make up New Orleans’ writer Barb Johnson’s wonderful debut collection of linked stories, More of This World or Maybe Another. In the first and title story, Delia is the narrator and we meet her boyfriend Calvin and his sister Charlene, who goes by...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 28, 2010 | journeys, place, shapes |
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 25, 2010 | Dani Shapiro, place |
So sorry for the radio silence but I’m at the Sirenland Writer’s Conference. I was here for 2 1/2 days before I had a second to log in to the internet, which is the longest I’ve been offline in over a year. And that was just to check email. I mean,...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Mar 14, 2010 | journeys, Pam Houston, place, provincetown |
In 2006, I went to Provincetown for the first time to take a workshop with Pam Houston at the Fine Arts Work Center. Each morning a twenty-minute walk to class took me parallel with the ocean on a cobblestone sidewalk, past art gallery after art gallery and shop...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Feb 16, 2010 | journeys, place |
Silver Moon is the name of the 19-foot Airstream Bambi trailer where I’m staying at a writing/spa retreat in the hills above Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ten Thousand Waves is the name of this Japanese-style spa where they leave a chocolate fortune-telling Buddha on...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Jan 16, 2010 | accumulation, craft of writing, details, journeys, mfa, place, reading, the day |
Thank you to everyone who’s asked what it was like going to my first residency at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. I think it’s taken so long for me to write this post because, in addition to catching up with life and not getting behind on my work, I was...
