DECEMBER 16 2017 Not Quite a Year Ago “When I refer to Aunt Cade’s ‘big house downtown,’ I am talking about a house that, to my child’s eyes, was a castle. It had turrets and towers and lots of slanting roofs, and it was dark, looming over the […]
What follows is an excerpt from my recently completed novel, I’m Not Going to Heaven. I’m Going to Birmingham: A Story of the South. The main character, Charlotte Cade Gibson, eleven years old, is based on my favorite aunt who was in her forties when I was born. I wanted to imagine the child […]
My Home Page promises some discussion of The News of the Day and God, so here goes. In an article in the New York Times, the man who lived with Oliver Sacks for the six or so years before Sacks died, quoted the neurologist and writer, “The most we can do is to write — […]
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My mother’s favorite word was “Shit!” and she wasn’t even a writer. She was a Southerner, though, and that probably explains it. This morning, “On Writing #3” was a short essay describing the next phase of the writing of my autobiographical novel. It followed smoothly and logically from “On Writing #2”– some thoughts on the […]
ROBERT MUELLER is a lifelong conservative Republican and the great hope of every liberal Democrat in the country. A prosecutor who, in nearly forty years in government service, has honored and worked within the parameters of that government and the law, he is the conservative’s conservative. When he was appointed United States attorney in San Francisco–a […]
OCTOBER 5 2017 Having completed two novels, an accomplishment so amazing to me that I still don’t quite understand how it happened, I must have gotten cocky. For decades, my cousins and I have repeated our mantra, “Someone should really write a novel about this family!” That eventually became an exhortation aimed directly at me, […]
