Episode 8 of LFTRR Explains the “First Page Test”
James J. Patterson is the reluctant scholar and on this (the eighth!) episode of Live from the Reading Room, he reads the from his essay of the same name. He also reads from books that have passed his "First Page Test" including "Night Train to Lisbon" by Pascal Mercier, "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Muse" by Jessie Burton, "The Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller, and "Confessions" by Jean-Jaques Rousseau.
Finding Myth
Finding Myth By Rose Solari As a child, I distrusted mythology, as I did any literature that adults seemed to think was especially well-suited to kids. Tales of Mount Olympus, […]
[Joanna Biggar] Report from the West Coast
Report from the West Coast: ASP’s Joanna Biggar Talks Paris, Then and Now March 28, 2018 The San Francisco Bay Area Group met March 10th for a timely presentation […]
It’s a new year and our authors are busy!
Here is an update on their recent doings: Joanna Biggar has just returned from a visit to Cuba with Wanderland Writers, a writing retreat series that she co-founded and runs […]