Yesterday’s post featured author Lyn Fairchild Hawks’ novel, How Wendy Redbird Dancing Survived the Dark Ages of Nought. Lyn’s experience as a teacher in economically diverse and racially mixed schools shaped her novel (and her life) in profound ways. Today she answers…
It’s a fascinating thing when a friend of your youth writes a novel. Especially a novel set in high school, when your lives were woven tight. Lyn arrived in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 9th grade, moving from northern California (France…
It’s important to know where to find a good BLT when you need one. Pepper the puppy has brought me low on a few occasions with her fierce if playful biting, her energy level, and her tiny bladder. I must…
I’ve long admired my friend and regular Bacon contributor Lawrence Cook for having clear goals and working towards them with conviction. I recently asked about her current goals. “Right now, my goals are to look forward, pay it back, and listen,”…
The Man Booker Prize might be my favorite of the big literary awards… don’t tell the National Book Award or Pulitzer Prize committees! I suppose I still look to the Mother Country for some important things, such as royal babies,…