Last night, I joined Tanya Ward Goodman and the poet Helena Lipstadt for a reading at a very cool independent bookstore in Echo Park. A s...

I think if you click on that picture, it will enlarge and you can read the fine print. Tanya Ward Goodman, the author of Leaving Tinkerto...

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Obviously I didn't take the above photo of Los Angeles, but there have been plenty of days that I've looked east and seen that ex...

So, they look good, these boys of mine! They've spent nearly three weeks at Camp Grandma and Pop Pop, and I was so happy to see them...

Tanya Ward Goodman First lines of novels can either make you stand there in the bookstore, lie there on your bed, grab you so that you ...

Tanya Ward Goodman, one of my dearest writer friends who I've sat with for literally hours and hours, talking about writing and readin...