Category: The Writing Life

Smell Writes the Novel, A Meander 

Everybody has a trick for entering their writing. They light candles, turn on Mozart, twirl three times counterclockwise.  Me, I cook. This is new. And it isn’t the cooking, really, it’s the smell. Seems I need the simmering of onions…

Meet Jess Lourey, Author of Litani

Litani, the newest release from acclaimed crime novelist Jess Lourey, explores the darkness at the heart of the rural Midwest in a novel inspired by a chilling true crime. In the summer of 1984, fourteen-year-old Frankie Jubilee, the protagonist of…

Three Virtuosos of Dread

Dread is an instrument. Its sound varies depending on how you play it. We’ve all heard it before, in the background of movies and TV series: there’s the high-pitched note that stretches on and on, the irregularly thudding heartbeat, the…