The first plot piece of my novel in progress (current title: Out of the Red Summer) was set when I was in grade school. I was maybe 10 when my parents took me to see All the Way Home, the…
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Creating My Red Summer
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Pushing Prohibition
I’m in the Prohibition Era for my book in progress and found this charming, linguistic plan of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union to rid European immigrants of their nasty drinking ways and steer them straight to apple juice and Coca-Cola.…
“Why Men Drink,” p. 22
In research for my next book, I was looking for early 20th C magazines accepting fiction from unknowns. The American Magazine read submissions blind, and published many new writers along with some of the great writers of the day: Sherwood…
Brainworkers’ disease
I’m researching, among other things, treatment of the insane circa 1910. A particular malady was emerging then among “brainworkers.” It was the price of civilization, apparently, and particularly afflicted the professional class. The malady was called neurasthenia. The symptoms, as…
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