in Rural Ireland with Claire Keegan This writer walked into a pub in rural Ireland with Claire Keegan. Before long, twenty more writers joined them. A man who was sitting at the bar said to another, “They must be lost!” Last month, I traveled to Ireland to study with internationally-acclaimed author Claire Keegan (“Small Things Like These,” and “Foster,” among her stories). Keegan leads a writers’ retreat at a former convent in a rural town…
New York Times best-selling author Joyce Maynard is coming to Scarlet Letter Books in Plymouth, NH! We’ll be talking about her new novel, In Wonderland, and probably many other things, on Monday, August 3 at 6:00 p.m. The event is free, but you’ll want to get tickets as seating is limited. You can reserve your space here: https://www.scarletletterbooks.com/autnor-visits Refreshments will be available, and Joyce will be happy to sign books after the conversation. We hope you’ll…
Author Shasta Grant and I grew up in the same hometown of Newport, NH. It’s the main setting of her intriguing and highly-acclaimed new novel, When We Were Feral. I’ll be in conversation with her on Tuesday, 6/16 at 6:00 p.m. at Scarlet Letter Books in Plymouth, NH. We would love to see you there! When We Were Feral is a gripping coming-of-age story that takes place in 1990s rural New Hampshire. It is about…
The Winding Stair is an historic bookshop in Dublin, Ireland. It has long been a place for writers to convene. The building was built in 1875. It is yellow and stands beside the river Liffey and the Ha’penny bridge. The book shop opened in 1982, named for its winding staircase, and in tribute to W.B. Yeats, after his poem The Winding Stair. In the late ’90s, I attended a poetry reading there by Seamus Heaney and…
Maybe, we establish traditions in order to feel normal. At age sixteen I decided to visit my father in prison —to see him for the first time in ten years. The thought of going to the prison by myself made me nervous. I remember visiting my father in another facility once when I was six years old, but that was with my mother and two younger brothers. Back then, we visited my father in…
•The Photography Studio / From Photographer to Writer To prepare my studio for the sale, I emptied it in early January. I didn’t sell everything, though. Photography has been a part of my life since I was nine years old. It always will be, so I kept enough equipment to do some personal projects. Shortly after I emptied the place, I learned that the closing would be delayed. There’s still no new closing date. Meanwhile,…
Dear friends, For nearly fourteen years, I’ve been on an extraordinary journey celebrating and empowering people through photography. I’ve served hundreds of remarkable clients who have trusted me to create their portraits and headshots. I’m deeply humbled by each person who has chosen me to be their photographer. Over the years, I’ve also created meaningful personal projects, earned international awards, and exhibited world-wide. My ongoing work in the arts is about to shift. I’m selling…