by Philip Caputo | Aug 10, 2023 | Essays, Memory and Desire
Book reviews are anything but irrelevant to a writer. True, a rave doesn’t guarantee that a novel or story collection will fly off the shelves; nor does the opposite forecast a flop. But we’re talking percentages.
by Philip Caputo | Jul 10, 2023 | Essays, Memory and Desire
Why write? A question I’ve been asking myself lately. I’ve been writing for so long that it’s become as natural, and essential, as breathing.
by Philip Caputo | Jun 12, 2020 | Essays, Journal of a Plague Year
I ran into a friend, Robin Baxter, yesterday morning as he was walking his dog and I was getting set to walk mine. He asked when Leslie and I were leaving Arizona for Connecticut, and I told him Tuesday, adding that it looked like we were getting out just in time. The...
by Philip Caputo | Jun 4, 2020 | Essays, Journal of a Plague Year
Today, June 4, 2020, is my and Leslie’s 32d anniversary, and we spent part of it, unromantically, at a demonstration protesting the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis. Considering that Patagonia, Arizona, has 913 residents and that...
by Philip Caputo | May 25, 2020 | Essays, News
TO MY FALLEN BROTHERS: LCPL CARROLL FANKHAUSER, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines. 8/24/65 PFC ROBERT FERNANDEZ, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines. 6/20/65 CPL BRIAN GAUTHIER, 1st Battalion, 3d Marines. 7/11/65 LCPL REYNALDO GUZMAN, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines. 1/25/66 1STLT WALTER...
by Philip Caputo | May 13, 2020 | Essays, Journal of a Plague Year
May 13, 2020 We have been more or less sheltering in place at our winter home in Patagonia, Arizona, for the past two and a half months. I use the qualifying term “more or less” because in this sparsely populated region there is ample room to go hiking,...
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