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 | Apr 30, 2010 | stories |
When I heard that Robin Black was going to be the Sirenland Fellow for 2009 and that she had published a story in One Story, I moved quickly to my back issues and began to thumb through. I only save the stories I love and pass the others forward. Of course I’d...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 29, 2010 | catching moments, journeys, stories, the day |
Today is the birthday of an author of a book–Robin Black. Her last birthday she was not the author of a book. Just like that it can happen. And get your pencils out. You need to write this one down too: If I loved you, I would tell you this. Each of the 10...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 8, 2010 | catching moments, the day |
Here’s where I am right now, sitting in the chair behind my green computer, on Blue Mountain Beach, in Florida, for spring break. I have a list of things I want to post about. It’s on that table somewhere, on a large green post-it note. It ends with number...
by Cynthia Newberry Martin | Apr 1, 2010 | 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 ROBIN BLACK There’s an enormous window...
