I'm chuffed to see Relative Fortunes named as one of forty-eight mysteries and thrillers recommended in a recent GoodReads article. Check it out here. The article divides selections into six popular plot tropes like "The Locked Room" and "Oops, We're All Trapped Here Together." … [Read more...]
Reading in Place—Fiction to Shelter By
In this stressful time, your world like mine probably feels unmoored. Anxieties have mushroomed, filled with a thousand concerns I couldn’t have unimagined a few months ago. At the same time my world has shrunk, reduced to the physical parameters of my house, garden, and … [Read more...]
A Private Press of One’s Own
The heroine of my historical mysteries, Julia Kydd, boasts a slight acquaintance with the great modernist writer Virginia Woolf. In Relative Fortunes, we learn that she persuaded Woolf to let her publish her four-page single-sentence essay titled “Wednesday.” Julia then … [Read more...]
History and/or Fiction? Yes and Yes
“Historical fiction” sounds like an oxymoron. Don’t the needs of honoring the factual past clash with the freewheeling impulses of fiction? Or can fiction enrich the documentary record with imagined layers of nuance, complexity, and even discovery? Yes and yes. Recently on … [Read more...]
Poems from the Balcony, Then and Now
Jazz out of an open window. Poems from the balcony. We’ve all seen the images of quarantined Italians sharing their solitude across deserted courtyards and empty streets from facing buildings. Some play a saxophone or piano, some join in spontaneous choirs of popular or patriotic … [Read more...]
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