My Writerly Life

  • SEBASTIAN BARRY’S SPATE OF WORDS

    It is difficult to explain why I like Sebastian Barry’s mournful Booker Prize-nominated On Canaan’s Side better than his current Booker-nominated Old God’s Time, and why all his other lauded works fall somewhere in between, but let me start by saying that Barry is masterful at the craft of writing. In the past I have… Read more

  • IT ALL STARTED WITH GOLDIE RIPPER

    Hello everyone, and welcome to my blog, “My Writerly Life,” which pretty much encapsulates my nearly 84 years. I hope you will read along and perhaps “Follow” my weekly posts, and share your own reading habits and inspirations. I was not born knowing I was a writer, but I was an inveterate reader from a… Read more

  • COMING SOON . . .

    No, not the circus, or a movie, or a new hotel—a new blog entitled My Writerly Life, with squibs about literature, the arts, people, things that inspire me. An introductory blog will magically appear 9/13, and a review of Sebastian Barry’s new Booker Prize nominated novel on 9/17. But you do not have to remember… Read more