Category Archives: On Reading
Wedded to Wallace: The Stegner Marriage
(http://www NULL.nicholebernier NULL.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/mwsteg2 NULL.gif) When Mary Stuart Page Stegner died, it came to my attention as a blip in my Twitter stream, tucked aptly between posts lamenting the destruction of nature in the BP oil spill. The fact that she was … Continue reading
The Rabbit In The Soccer Net
(http://www NULL.nicholebernier NULL.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Rabbit NULL.jpg) (originally posted 10/2014) The other day my six-year-old ran in the house screaming: “A RABBIT IS STUCK IN THE SOCCER NET!” When I went outside the poor thing was writhing frantic, the webbing wrapped double … Continue reading
Booker-winner BARDO, odd and brilliant
(http://www NULL.nicholebernier NULL.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Bardo NULL.png) I just finished the strange and un-put-downable LINCOLN IN THE BARDO, which won the Man Booker prize while I was reading it. Entirely deserving. It’s historical, biblical, Dantesque, supernatural, and just plain bizarrely unique. It’s about … Continue reading
Interviewing Fredrik Backman
(http://www NULL.nicholebernier NULL.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/NicFredrikBackman-crop NULL.jpg)I love when the local bookstore asks me to interview a visiting author, making it a Q&A-style event instead of a reading. I like that better in my own events too, more of a conversation than a … Continue reading
My favorite recent read
(http://www NULL.nicholebernier NULL.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/littlelife NULL.jpg)A book I read last spring ruined me for books for a little while. Because after I finished, I had such a book hangover that I didn’t feel ready to go back to the trough right away. … Continue reading
The Year in Reading
(http://www NULL.nicholebernier NULL.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/books NULL.jpg)The literary website The Millions (http://www NULL.themillions NULL.com) asked me to contribute to its year-end package of authors talking about their most memorable reads of the year. When I went back through my book journal of 2012, a … Continue reading
Faulkner For Kids?
(http://www NULL.nicholebernier NULL.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/wishingtreepic NULL.jpg) At a recent visit to my children’s pediatrician, the doctor asked, “Have you ever read your kids that children’s book by Faulkner?” He said he read it to his kids a lot when they were younger, … Continue reading
What I’m Reading Today: WILD, by Cheryl Strayed
(http://www NULL.nicholebernier NULL.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/images NULL.jpeg)Part of the busywork of being an author-about-to-launch is writing essays for book blogs about a variety of things. This weekend I received a request to write about either a) something I’m reading right now, or b) … Continue reading
