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I’ve fallen behind on my segments from the novel “Sunday People,” but here at long last is the third one, from the chapter on the anchoring character of the book. Orson Woodrow Wilson died the year I was born. My pappy was a good Democrat, so my middle name is Woodrow. Orson Woodrow Caskill. Not… Read More »Sunday People Blog Three

Darcy I sit here in my office in the gray, block-like building that houses my department, a building so at variance with the Gothic crannies and spires of the main buildings on campus that I cringe on entering its dusty and uninspired corridors. They must have been saving money when they built it during the… Read More »Prelude to Sunday People

This is my first blog, occasioned by the publication of The Guitar Player and Other Songs of Exile. The blog might be titled “Meditations on Kentuckians.” It will be ongoing for a while and mostly taken from a so-far unpublished, somewhat experimental novel, Sunday People. The segment below belongs to the character Melissa, granddaughter of… Read More »First Post