Category: Story
fiction and other truths
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Apple TV’s show Shrinking debuted its third season recently, and I hopped on that narrative train, watching the first two half-hour episodes. I liked this show when I stumbled on it last year, for its humor, but mainly because of its completely not-Oregon-winter vibe. People in a beautifully photographed upscale part of somewhere California. Sunny…
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Putting your soul under somebody else’s microscope isn’t easy. But that’s what writers do when they join a writing group, a gang of fellow authors who hear or read the first draft as it comes in bits and pieces fresh from the fingertips of the author. First audience, cheerleader, critic and deadline monitor, writers show…
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It’s hard to guess which of us was more surprised. In our most recent book group, Irene Palmer asked me if I had read “House Made of Dawn” by N. Scott Momaday. Happens I had, thanks to a literature professor committed to diversity in the literary canon she taught. But hold on there, Irene. How…
Susan Palmer's Exquisite Now 