Author: Cliff

October 8, 2005

>Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits

>by Laila Lalami What an excellent book this is. Tied brilliantly together by the opening chapter (“The Trip”), this collection (novel in stories?) reveals…
October 5, 2005

>The Dog of the Marriage

>by Amy Hempel If you’re Amy Hempel, you can get away with a book that’s only 130 pages long. Not that it wasn’t satisfying,…
October 4, 2005

>The Wandering Cow

>It’s not an unusual occurrence in the country. Sometimes, stretching for that next bite of juicy grass, a cow will find itself on the…
October 1, 2005

>The Comedy of Errors

>What was it with the Elizabethans and the whole separated-twins thing? And in The Comedy of Errors, we have not one set of twins,…
September 21, 2005

>And the Word Was

>My review of Bruce Bauman’s And the Word Was is up at MoorishGirl.com. Check out the rest of Laila Lalami’s terrific site while you’re…
September 20, 2005

>Sharon Olds Takes a Stand

>Read about poet Sharon Olds’s courageous stand against the Iraq War and other Bush administration atrocities in The Nation.
September 18, 2005

>How He Writes

>by David Budbill A gray and drizzling dayhere on Judevine Mountain. The birds and the wind are still,and he too so dolorous and quiet…
September 16, 2005

>Cliff is . . .

>Thanks to Erin for this bit of fun. What a great way to invent a character for your next story! Go to Google and…
September 14, 2005

>Bausch’s Ten Commandments of Writing

>Richard Bausch is a terrific teacher. At the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in 2004 his craft lecture consisted of his Ten Commandments of Writing, which…
September 4, 2005

>All’s Well That Ends Well

>To say the least, it’s hard to understand what Helen sees in Bertram. Okay, so the guy’s a Count. Big deal. He’s also a…