Month: December 2010

  • Map for a Forgotten Valley

    As promised in earlier posts, my series of lyrical essayistic vignettes, Map for a Forgotten Valley, are now available to be read online at The New Haven Review. I’m interested to see what readers might make of these dispatches on place, environment, history and local culture.  It’s a very different type of writing I’ve done…

  • Holiday

    Last minute shoppers, looking for a good book to give at the holidays?  Take a chance on M. Rickert’s new short story collection, Holiday.  Mary Rickert’s stories are absolutely full of wonder and frightening circumstances, sometimes creepy and other times sad or joyful.  She’s one of the best short story writers out there, period, in…