Wow, I can so relate to this, sometimes writing can be so engrossing that you forget everyone, and everything else, even food, water, fundamentals, and worst of all your children! Burnt pizza, burnt garlic bread. Yes I forget the food in the oven on a regular basis. Guilty as charged.
Laura McBride is the author of We Are Called to Rise, which is published today (June 3) by Simon & Schuster. She is a professor of English at the College of Southern Nevada in Henderson, just south of Las Vegas, where her novel is set. It has received strongly positive notices and is one of this summer’s must-reads. (Look for my review tomorrow and an interview shortly thereafter.)
About a million years ago, when I was in college, I did my senior thesis on Virginia Woolf. It was an odd choice of topic – for an American Studies major – but my department was an easygoing place. They didn’t mind that I was preparing to launch my deepest academic work on a British author I knew nothing about. They just asked me to find my own qualified advisor (which they might have thought would be limiting) so…
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M J Mallon YA Author and Poet 