
RIP Kim Chernin, novelist, memoirist, poet
For lovers of memoir, there is no better than In My Mother’s House (1983), by the glorious Kim Chernin, who…
January 3, 2021For lovers of memoir, there is no better than In My Mother’s House (1983), by the glorious Kim Chernin, who…
January 3, 2021PUBLICATION DATE: May 11, 2021 (available for pre-order, mid-February) Bordighera Press I T A L I A N …
August 20, 2020You can read my personal essay ~ “WANTING WARHOL: My Connections to Andy Warhol” HERE: https://catamaranliteraryreader.com/all-nonfiction As Kathy…
June 18, 2020Naples’ old town is cut in two by the famous Naples’ Spaccanapoli, or Splitter — SEE Elena Ferrante’s…
April 7, 2020You’re not going to the movies??!! Remember when movie reviewers used to go on about the experience of being…
August 12, 2019Writers Have the Best Shoes … I once went to hear Mary Karr interviewed by Calvin Trillin at the…
December 9, 2018What Maxine Hong Kingston Calls a “longbook.” Having just finished my novel, The Taste of Anise, which took me…
November 28, 2018RIP Claire Hollingworth, who died yesterday at 105. Am I searching for empowerment/strong women/examples of heroism/of female guts and power…
January 11, 2017Artists are good at showing us how to think about death and dying. They extend their hands, stretching them far out into the unknown that awaits. We arrived at a…
January 14, 2016I’M THINKING ABOUT WALT WHITMAN! His drama. His emotion. His love of nature, of men and women, and honesty…boy…
December 9, 2015Inspiration & Writing