Monthly Archives: July 2016

Now and Then and Now Again

Posted on July 31, 2016 by jayne bowers

It’s crunch time for shaping up this year’s anthology. I’m not at the fingernail-biting stage yet. I know we’ll pull it together my mid-August at the absolute latest. We want our book to be top-notch even if it means tacking … Continue reading →

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Learning from Pearl Buck

Posted on July 28, 2016 by jayne bowers

After listening to Garrison Keillor talk about Pearl Buck on The Writer’s Almanac, I knew I had to reread The Good Earth. About a fourth of the way through the book, my admiration for the author’s storytelling gifts grew, especially when I … Continue reading →

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