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Cursing John McPhee
Before anything else, acknowledgements to various places that have helped me launch In Solo Time, the prequel to last year’s Solo Act. More to come as the fall unfolds. In no particular order, many thanks to: Gulf of Maine Books … Continue reading
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I Could Use That
Only because it’s happened to me three times in the last week am I moved to address something I’m sure many writers have to deal with, that moment when someone tells you a bit of interesting information or an intriguing … Continue reading
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“Be Tender, Laugh More”
A prolific and well-loved Oregon writer, Brian Doyle, died last week. Though I shared the other Portland with him for thirteen years, I didn’t know him except through his essays and fiction. He edited the University of Portland’s alumni magazine … Continue reading
Pie Fixes Everything . . . Mostly
Shameless Self-Promotion Department, Part I—See me at the following events in May: Saturday, May 13 at 2 PM: Reading and Talk at South Portland Main Library on Broadway Thursday, May 18 at 6:30 PM: Talk with Kate Flora, Lea Wait, … Continue reading
Fiddling in the Spring
Had a wonderful time at the well-known local showcase for writers in Westbrook known as Books in the Brook last Saturday. Always a pleasure to talk to an audience that comprises more than my wife and the cat. Thanks to … Continue reading
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Alternative Facts
“Writers are liars, my dear, surely you know that by now? And yet, things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.” –Neil … Continue reading
Thanks to Mon Oncle
First: In the Shameless Commerce division, please put January 28 on your calendar for Local Writers at the Local Buzz café and wine bar in Cape Elizabeth, 4:00 to 5:00 PM. I will be reading from Solo Act and new … Continue reading
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The Perfect Game
Seriously, Cass? More baseball stuff? Well, feel free to move along if you don’t have a yen for The Perfect Game but if you stick around, I’ll try to connect it to something closer to our hearts. The great Rogers … Continue reading
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The Fish and the Bicycle
It’s been a wonderfully sociable summer here at Chez 28 and in the wake of a splendid visit from old good friends from the other Portland (and my Medicare birthday), I’ve been considering the nature of friendship. And then because … Continue reading
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The Devil May or May Not be in the Details
Back in the days when I was the World’s Oldest Living Graduate Student, I submitted a story to a fiction workshop that featured an old woman fly-fishing in an Alaskan river and the things that happened to her. What surprised … Continue reading
