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From The Mailbox

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Lynne • 1 Comment

Last week a note from a Massachusetts reader appeared in my inbox regarding my book, Where The Trail Grows Faint. The book, published in 2005 by the University of Nebraska Press, is creative non-fiction about working with my chocolate Labrador retriever, Hannah, in a nursing home. It weaves three story strands into a braid: Hannah and… Continue Reading

On Listening

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Lynne • 2 Comments

I’ve just finished Townie, the recently published memoir by Andre Dubus III. I found his first two novels, House of Sand and Fog and The Garden of Last Delights, to be brilliant literary fiction and was eager to see what he’d do with nonfiction. Dubus addresses the tumult of his boyhood after his parents’ divorce,… Continue Reading

Where I Get My Ideas

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Lynne • 3 Comments

Given my love for the natural world, I hit the jackpot when my dear friend Diana lost her mind and brought home four baby chicks in early April. I immediately recognized that I’ll gleefully use chicken-raising in a novel (definitely in an urban setting, too; Diana and her husband live within the city limits and… Continue Reading

Back To Details: Naming The Wilderness

Posted on April 20, 2011 by Lynne • 1 Comment

One thing I’ve learned is that most of us are passionate about a couple of things and how much those interests emerge as defining parts of our identities. I don’t know exactly when I fell in love with being able to identify, for example, the wildflowers that right now have turned the forest floor into… Continue Reading

On Craft: Scene or Narration?

Posted on April 2, 2011 by Lynne • 3 Comments

Would you think for a moment about your favorite novels? What about them do you remember most? My memories are of tense or revelatory scenes that came alive as strongly as if a staged play were in front of me. (For our purpose, let’s define a scene as a a unit of enacted drama that takes place… Continue Reading

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