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>Grace Paley & Bob Nichols   –photograph by Marion Lewis, Tepoztlan, Mexico, January 2005

>Bob Nichols is the husband of Grace Paley. He is a wonderfully funny man who also is a writer. During my recent workshop with…

>I travel overseas often, mostly to Asia but in 2004 also to Central America and Europe. Not since the 70’s, when I first went…

>I’ve been working on yet another revision to my novel. When it was my MFA thesis, it was described as “complex” and “ambitious,” and…

>Except that (i) we have a President who is a fascist liar (for which reason I won’t be watching his speech this evening–what would…

>Let’s just say it’s a little early to declare the election (either Iraq’s or ours) a success. John Coyne, founder of Peace Corps Writers,…

>In which I was walking down a city street–Chicago, I think–and came across the headquarters of Poets & Writers. The building was grand and…

>When it snowed here last week, I didn’t bother to shovel. There was warmer weather predicted, there wasn’t much to begin with, and what…

>Occasionally, often for no discernible reason, a name from my past comes to mind–someone from high school, maybe, or my college fraternity; sometimes I…

>Writing prompts come from the strangest places. Usually I am struck by a character, a person I have seen or heard about, and then…