Summary of Previous Chapters 13 In January the rains came. Storms rolled in from the Pacific, one after another, releasing torrents, until late in the month. The first morning the sun came out, I called Diana and asked her to meet me at the ranch over my lunch hour. I arrived at the barn early […]
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This is one of a series of columns that feature a most-loved poem. Each of these poems is coupled with and a poem or two that speak to, or resonate with, the first poem. This week’s poem is “Nostalgia” by Billy Collins, written in 1991. The two other poems are “To His Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell and
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With my novel, The Sureness of Horses, available now, twelve years after I started, in hardcover, softback, and eBook forms, I took a few minutes to look back at some of the things I’d heard about writing that helped me finish the process. I’ve divided it into Beginnings, Middles, and Endings. Beginnings: “How is writing
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Link to a Summary of the First Nine Chapters 10 The Wednesday before Thanksgiving, in the middle of the morning, Jorge showed up in my office. “I thought you were working from home today,” he said. “I wanted to,” I said. “Ray’s up in San Francisco with bankers. But I have this report due Monday.
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6 I wanted to tell Jorge outright that he was, to quote Ray, “history.” But, as well as I got on with Ray, he would have written me off in a heartbeat. “Life is about loyalty,” he said repeatedly. I’d seen him turn on people dramatically if he thought they’d been disloyal. How could I
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3 Diana and I went out for coffee at Peet’s, across the street from the high school, where her daughter had just started. It was a typical early September day, sunny with soft breezes. Most of the people in line for coffee were dressed for work, but a fit young mother wearing a red Stanford
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