Posts Tagged ‘World War 2 fiction’
How a Paper Shop Inspired My Next Novel
It’s pretty cold here in New York, but I’m feeling warm right now as I think about a wonderful small writing shop located out on the North Fork of Long Island, where my family and I spend our summers. It’s a tiny paper shop, and it’s stocked with the most charming assortment of stationery, notepads,…
Read More“The Only Thing I Know About the Dark…”
“The only thing I know about the dark is that you can’t see in it.” Like many of you I’m sure, I was so sad to learn about the death of Robert Redford earlier this month. I had lot of admiration for him – as an environmentalist, an activist, an entrepreneur, a director, and a…
Read MoreA Remarkable Village
It was late 1940, a brutal period for France, when part of the country was under Nazi occupation and the remainder soon would be, when something miraculous happened. A tiny community in the mountains of southern France, led by the charismatic pastor André Trocmé and a small group of others – including his wife, Magda;…
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