4. For Such a Time as This, Reflections on A STONE FOR BREAD: The Slippery Slope
In my last post (see post here), A Stone for Bread‘s protagonist American Henry Beam and several American friends attend a…
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3. For Such a Time as This, Reflections on A STONE FOR BREAD: Corruption
The world’s great religions understand human fallibility and address it in varying ways through the Torah, the Christ, the Koran…
2. For Such a Time as This, Reflections on A STONE FOR BREAD: A Hole in the Heart
Years ago when I was teaching at Greensboro College, I attended a guest lecture by Doris Kearns Goodwin where she…
1. For Such a Time as This*, Reflections on A STONE FOR BREAD
If you’ve never read Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, now might be a good time. It’s the classic…
X. On Becoming a Writer: North Carolina
I end my series “On Becoming a Writer” in North Carolina, where I have lived since leaving New York. I…
IX. On Becoming a Writer: New York City
After seven years in South Carolina, I cashed in my small savings, rented a U-Haul and moved my few belongings,…
VIII. On Becoming a Writer: South Carolina, Part II – Back to Grad School
The spring of my last year at the Children’s Home, I drove from Columbia to Chapel Hill to be interviewed as…
VII. On Becoming a Writer: South Carolina, Part I – Grad School? Well Maybe Not
Following college, I began a Master’s program in English Lit at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. This was…
VI. On Becoming a Writer: San Juan Acozac
That first day, walking along the dirt road through the village, I worried I might catch some dread tropical disease and…
V. On Becoming a Writer: Appalachia
Well before I graduated from high school, I knew where I would go to college. Because of that, I applied…
IV. On Becoming a Writer: Tales of Two Cities – D.C.
Two cities. Two different worlds. From the diversity of my Miami neighborhood see Miami post, I moved at the age of…
Interview on “Be the Star You Are”
To listen to the June 29th interview, go to “Be the Star You Are,” click here and then click on…
III. On Becoming a Writer: Tales of Two Cities – Miami
I was born in Miami, Florida, and after three years in Georgia, I lived in Miami from the age of…
II. On Becoming a Writer: House of Pain
I once heard it said that professional comedians have often survived painful childhoods. I don’t know if that applies…
I. On Becoming a Writer
Before I was 24, I had dined in the U. S. Senate Dining Room at a table next to John…
Starred Kirkus Review: A Stone for Bread, “compelling” and “expertly done”
In this new novel from Herin (Absolution, 2007), enterprising graduate student Rachel Singer in 1997 decides to talk to disgraced…