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Category Archives: Good Books
On Mark Doty & Potent Noticing
I’m glad Mike Henry posted “The Community Garden,” the piece that follows the title poem in Mark Doty’s fourth poetry collection, Atlantis. To me, the poem works almost as a … Continue reading
Member Dispatch: Preparing for Doty
Ed. note: Rebecca Snow is a longtime member of Lighthouse–a poet and fiction writer with a novel forthcoming from Conundrum Press. Thanks for this contribution, Rebecca! You’ve got to love … Continue reading
On Story Design and Red-Hottiness: A few Qs for David Wroblewski
by Andrea Dupree As many of you know, David Wroblewski, widely considered the Chekhov of the Northern Suburbs (okay, maybe more the Faulkner), thrust Denver into the public literary consciousness when … Continue reading
Imagistic Interview: Antoine Wilson and Panorama City
by Nick Arvin Antoine Wilson’s recent novel Panorama City earned terrific reviews from the New York Times (“A bracingly humane story whose narrator’s wisdom and forbearance make you see the … Continue reading
Remembering Cort McMeel
There aren’t that many people who can walk into a room and, by walking in, completely alter it. When that room is full of writers, and the change is so … Continue reading
It’s the voice, silly! Another micro-interview
Notice I didn’t say “stupid”? I’m making a concerted effort to not use “It’s the ____, stupid,” or “What we talk about when we talk about _____” derivatives for at … Continue reading
The Storytelling Animal
I just finished this really interesting book, The Storytelling Animal, written by Jonathan Gottschall, whose overarching question is this: why do humans tell stories? I find this question intriguing, because: … Continue reading
Reckless Speculating: Thursday’s “Words On Trial” Craft Tribunal with novelist Christopher Castellani
Chris Castellani led Thursday’s Craft Tribunal, “Words on Trial,” armed with Grace Paley’s “Mother” and an excerpt from Mark Costello’s The Murphy Stories. He chose the two for their different … Continue reading
