Memory is fluid and complex and difficult to judge. I love the idea of a tapestry of memories about the same event. Somewhere, in the middle of this woven quilt of memories, is the truth. Or many, many truths. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Martha Anne Toll
Everyone’s Got a Story: Q & A with Maisy Card
“I realized I had to center myself and people like me in my writing because I didn’t know who else would.” Continue reading
Making Funny Things Into Art: Q & A with Sari Rosenblatt
by Martha Anne Toll
“If there’s no humor in a story, I can’t bear to write it.” Continue reading
Writing Short Stories Is What I Wanted to Do with My Life: Q & A with Susan Buttenwieser
by Martha Anne Toll
“This feels like it is happening at the right time for me and my writing, and that I have truly landed in the right place.” Continue reading
Essays / Features / Nonfiction
On Finding Myself at a Writing Residency in Southern France
by Martha Anne Toll
Despite vast differences in wealth, status, ancestry, time, and setting, the eight-year-old girl in John Singer Sargent’s The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit haunts me. Why? Continue reading
Aussie Authoresses: Michelle de Kretser On Shirley Hazzard
by Martha Anne Toll
“I know almost nothing about literary scenes anywhere. The greater part of my days are spent alone in a room.” Continue reading
A Book for the Moment: On Helen Weinzweig’s Basic Black With Pearls
by Martha Anne Toll
Weinzweig published her first novel at age fifty-eight. Given her mastery of the form, it is tempting to speculate that in a different era, she might have been able to take her writing seriously at an earlier age. Continue reading
