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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… Read more
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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… Read more
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A note for students
Just a little note for students who might be reading my first novel, One for Sorrow, for a class: There are no SparkNotes or Cliff Notes. Sorry. You’re going to have to read the whole thing or else find someone who has in order to write your essay or take your test. Good luck! (This… Read more
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Introducing “jenny”
“jenny” is something my students in the Literary Arts Association at YSU have been busily preparing as a new online literary magazine. This is a radically energetic and creative group of students, and I’m really proud to be working with them as they put together something new and electric like this. Please take a look… Read more
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Autumnal updates
Haven’t been able to write in here for a bit now. School’s back in session for fall, and I’ve been valiantly running to keep up with it, and, at times, ahead of the pack. It slows down my abilities to do a number of other things, for sure, so I have to make decisions. Shall… Read more
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