Lewis Lapham interview

Should anyone be interested, Lewis Lapham interviewed me a couple of weeks ago about The Art of the Public Grovel. The interview is now up at bloomberg.com–click on the “video” [...]

How not to respond to a bad review

If you read my Twitter updates, you probably saw this one: “Never, never argue with a bad review. Chant fifty times. Repeat ad infinitum.” It’s so tempting to explain exactly [...]

Dispatch from Salt Lake City

So I’ve just finished speaking to the very friendly attendees at the Utah Home Educators Association convention. Talked to a lot of readers, signed a bunch of books. I promised a few scenes [...]

Late afternoon in Utah

I haven’t done a new post for a while because I had to get back from New York, do follow-up, take care of Peace Hill Press business, clean my house, hang out with my children, clean the [...]

From the Floor of BEA 2009: Day Two

This is my last day, since I’m heading out in about an hour and leaving my colleague Suzanne to pack up tomorrow. I have provided her with assistance in the form of my oldest son, [...]

From the floor of BEA 2009: First day

I’m in New York this week at BookExpoAmerica, where we have a booth next to W. W. Norton (our distributor). We ended up with a double booth this year (I’m not quite sure how it [...]

Words to warm a writer’s heart

“This book was so interesting!”–spoken by a ninth grader. A couple of months ago, the daughter of a friend of my brother and sister-in-law wandered into their home office and [...]

Dispatch from Cincinnati

This weekend I’m in Cincinnati at the Duke Energy Center, giving eight workshops on writing, literature, and classical education at the Midwest Homeschool Convention. This is a big and very [...]