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(cover and author photo by Jessie Simmons)
My friend John Simmons has written a very lovely book that does what every good novel should do. It evokes a time and a place and is populated with indelible characters. The language—as you might expect—is original and beautiful. Sometimes it is startling. John started this book some years ago and fate smiled upon him in the form of London based publisher, Urbane. My friend Neil Baker loved it too…
Dark Angels, Moniack Mhor 2015
5 Cool Things for 12.14. A documentary film about silence. Two new online homes for storytelling. Modern Creole jazz. A long, riveting chat between two giants of American literature. “In love there are two things, bodies and words.” – Joyce Carol Oates. Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, all. 5CT is best shared with friends.
Image courtesy Sarah Weinman
From this most hallowed of weekends, I send my greetings. John O’Hara holds the world record for published stories in the New Yorker, and may also be a world record holder for antagonizing nearly every human who met him. I listened to the Stupid Orchestra and heard my daily life in song. Julia Margaret Cameron was 48 when she first dove under the dark cloth…
The River Tay, Scotland
Paris, France“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” ~ Robert Frank
Pears, Seatte, Wa
Lake Ozette, Olympic Peninsula Wa
"To collect photographs is to collect the world." ~ Susan Sontag
Sailboat, Puget Sound
Space Needle, Seattle, Wa
The bass player
Cappuccino
Dream
“Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences.”
~ Sylvia Plath
(photo by Beowulf Sheehan)
“Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that, but you are the only you.” NEIL GAIMAN
Dark Angels writing workshops help writers find their voice.
- October of 2018, we're back in New Bedford, MASS. It's beautiful, a little remote, a lot of inspiring.
Perfect for working copywriters, corporate communications people, business owners who want to write better and storytellers of all kinds. Click the nib to learn more.
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness. ~ Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
Photographs from one year is one man's take at the world around him over the course of a year.
