The Story Behind the Hunter’s Moon Collection of Stories
My latest book, a collection of short stories titled Hunter’s Moon, was inspired by two much older works of short fiction, one by a Russian writer, Ivan Turgenev’s A Sportsman’s Sketches, and the other by an American, Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio. In a sense, Hunter’s Moon, much like Winesburg, Ohio, can be considered a novel in stories. It mostly takes place in a fictional American town, Vieux Desert, on Michigan’s wild and remote Upper Peninsula. It features recurrent characters at different points in their lives over the course of several years, roughly from 2004 to 2018.
BRING COMMON SENSE TO THE SENSELESS
Leslie and I took part in the March for Our Lives protest in Tucson today, March 24, 2018 — one of 800 nationwide demonstrations staged in reaction to the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, Florida, last month. The purpose, as everyone...Ken Burns Documentary.
An essay on my thoughts about the upcoming Ken Burns documentary. VietquakeSHOCK & AWE
I was surprised by the results of Tuesday’s election, but in all honesty not shocked, and certainly less than awed. That reaction wasn’t due to any extraordinary powers on my part but to the fact that I travel the country quite a lot, I listen to people, I...CANCER AND THE COSMOS
Cancer refers to the disease, not the constellation, yet the disease is linked to the cosmos in my own mind. A little more than a year ago, I underwent surgery for bladder cancer at White Plains hospital in White Plains, N.Y. A superficial but high-grade tumor roughly...
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