For a list of independent bookstores in Manhattan, click here.

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For a really interesting interview with Ann Patchett, click here.

I think all writers should read Lewis Hyde's THE GIFT. (I'll probably have it on the reading list for the Teaching Creative Writing class I'm doing this fall.) For more about it, click here.

I've always been obsessed with Flannery O'Connor, but these days, I am even more so. Even though we've only met once, I love love love my Southern Women Writers class, of which O'Connor's work is the heartbeat.

For more about the Fabulously Snarky Lady, click here. To see MSU's MFA students and a certain professor hanging out at her grave, click here.

Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award: click here. (Joyce Carol Oates is nominated in two genres.)

Three Dogs, Two Husbands, One Son

Can you write your memoir in six words? Click here.

If you love memoir, here's a site for you.