I have always loved America. The United States of America, that is. From the moment Huck Finn sailed down the Mississippi with the runaway slave Jim, I was sold. I loved the English classics, but for me American novelists like Mark Twain and F. Scott Fitzgerald drove a vibrant story. Their novels – the one … Continue reading America
Category: creative writing
Going Away to Write
Bob Dylan’s house in Malibu is sure to be gorgeous. Apparently it looks over the sea. But when a reporter asked where he composes, he replied, ‘In a hotel room.’ Tom Wolfe (The Bonfire of the Vanities) was rumoured to have locked himself in a hotel room at his editor’s insistence to finish The Kandy-Kolored-Flake Streamline … Continue reading Going Away to Write
WRITINGS AND MUSINGS OF MARGARET MCCAFFREY 