The Self-Made Writer

It was from  David Vann  that I first learned about "aspirational authors." Soon he became one of mine. Recently released is t...

In the inaugural essay of the new “Where We Write” feature in Poets and Writers Magazine , Francine J. Harris wrote about Detroit, an u...

Sherman Alexie In a letter signed "Sherman Alexie, An Absolutely True Part-Time Indie," one of America's best-known autho...

In Whitehorse: That's me with Michael Gates, one of my favorite writer/historians Recently I returned from ten days of travelin...

Hang around with a bunch of writers, and sooner or later the talk will turn to literary agents: who has one, who’s looking for one,...

Having published a dozen books, I’ll let you in on a little secret: I don’t love them all equally. Don’t get me wrong. I worked...

Forget those back-to-school sales. Summer’s not over yet. In Alaska, the silvers are running, and so is the Ode to a Dead Salmon ...