![]() When I’m swimming in a northern spring-fed lake, and my nose is right down near the water–that’s my favorite scent in the world. ![]() “I love the sound of snow crunching beneath boots, the taste of butter, and pumpkin pancakes with real maple syrup (What can I say? I was born in Syracuse, NY). ![]() She is a regular contributor at two of Writer’s Digest’s Top 101 Websites for Writers, Writer Unboxed and Writers in the Storm. Over the past decades she has served on the boards of the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group and the Philadelphia Writers Conference and worked with the Women’s Fiction Writers Association she hosts writing retreats for women and often speaks about writing. It was these events that launched her interest working through troubling psychosocial issues by writing fiction. Her second novel, the IPPY award-winning The Far End of Happy (Sourcebooks), is based on the true events surrounding the 1997 suicide standoff that resulted in her husband’s death. Set in Philadelphia, every page of the novel is infused with a dancer’s heightened awareness of the human body and its movement. Her first novel, The Art of Falling (Sourcebooks), grew from her 19 years of experience as a dance critic for The Morning Call newspaper. ![]() Rich with material for further thought or discussion, her novels make a great choice for book clubs. Kathryn Craft writes stories that seek beauty and meaning at the edge of darkness. Article by The Write Stuff Conference Chair, Dawn Sooy ![]()
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On this rainy Thanksgiving, the Bravos are guests of the Dallas Cowboy, slated to be part of the halftime show alongside Destiny’s Child.Īmong the Bravos is Specialist Billy Lynn. Now they’re on a media-intensive nationwide tour to reinvigorate support for the war. Three minutes and forty-three seconds of intense warfare with Iraqi insurgents has transformed the eight surviving men of Bravo Squad into America’s most sought-after heroes. Billy suspects his fellow Americans secretly know better, but something in the land is stuck on teenage drama, on extravagant theatrics of ravaged innocence and soothing mud wallows of self-justifying pity. Here is why Billy Lynns Long Halftime Walk is disappointing, even with no expectations. Goodreads: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Nineteen-year-old private Billy Lynn (Joe Alwyn). 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In his memoir, Surprised By Joy, Lewis confessed: “I had been far more anxious to avoid suffering than to achieve delight”. meant Lewis was on intimate terms with pain. ![]() ![]() He lived through the trauma of two world wars - and tragedies in his own very private life. 2020 has been a year of distress, suffering, and emotional hardship, all familiar in Lewis’ life. Lewis’s philosophy of life – and loss belongs to us today. Lewis remains a profound influence on English literature and thought. But what is the true legacy of his works? And are his writings still relevant today? This November marks the 57th anniversary of his death. He became Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1954 and it was whilst in this role that he would take his final bow. ![]() He even paid homage to it in his 1919 poem ‘ Oxford’.īut Lewis’s renown would eventually take him away from his “sweet city lulled by ancient streams”, to another cloistered environment: Cambridge. ![]() He studied at University College, then became a Fellow at Magdalen College : the beloved children’s author of The Chronicles of Narnia, had a deep connection with the historic university town for thirty years. Lewis (1898-1963) as he is more usually remembered, was at heart an Oxford Man. ![]() |