The Fugitive Life of an Airline Employee
When I was a boy, I had an uncle who married a flight attendant—or what we called back then a (forgive me) stewardess....
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04 Apr
General, The Writing Process
04 Apr
Good Reads, The Writing Process
The Flight Attendant Has Landed!
“Filled with turbulence and sudden plunges in altitude, ‘The Flight Attendant’ is a very rare thriller whose penultimate chapter made me think to...
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31 Dec
Good Reads
This Year, Take a Deep Breath and Focus on Others
When I was a boy, my parents’ New Year’s Eve parties were not precisely chaotic studies in dissolution and debauchery, but once when...
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07 Dec
Good Reads
The Ladies’ Room Just Inside Tomorrow Land: A Christmas Story
by Chris Bohjalian HE LEANED AGAINST THE cement wall, a father who was no longer young with a daughter who was, and listened...
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Here’s what I’m reading — and writing
Dear Friends Who Read and Readers Who Are Friends, To paraphrase a Chinese proverb – or, in some translators’ opinions, a Chinese...
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12 May
Good Reads, The Writing Process, Untold Stories
The novel, “Midwives,” 20 years later: What was the early reaction to the novel like? Has it changed over time?
It was twenty years ago that “Midwives” was published: 1997. Seinfeld was still on the air. The Spice Girls had two of the...
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10 May
The Writing Process, Untold Stories, Vermont
The novel, “Midwives,” 20 years later: Is there anything I would update or change?
It was twenty years ago that “Midwives” was published: 1997. I had hair then. Our phones were considerably less smart. Our books were...
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26 Apr
Armenia, Untold Stories
Naming the Armenian Genocide for what it is
ADOLF HITLER KEPT a bust of Ataturk in his office. Heinrich Himmler considered moving to Turkey in the early 1920s. And Rudolf Hoess,...
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04 Feb
Good Reads, The Writing Process, Vermont
Howard Frank Mosher: a heart as immense as his talent
Of the million and a half words (at least a million and a half) that Howard Frank Mosher published, the sentence I think...
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04 Jan
Good Reads, The Writing Process, Untold Stories
An interview in which I reveal my favorite children’s book, what I did before I became a novelist, and my response to one very garish dust jacket
Over the holidays, I was interviewed about my work and “The Sleepwalker” by Laura Hamlett of Playback St. Louis. I thought her questions...
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