Writer Mimi Schwartz visited here Tuesday and gave a wonderful reading on her new book Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father’s German Village. She offered some interesting insights about selecting the point of view for the text, how writers come to select a topic for a piece, and to name or not name percise details in creative nonfiction (here the small town). I was honored to meet her. Wow.

I’ve also found a couple of new literary jounals I’m fond of: The Broken Plate and Roanoke Review.