May 21, 2019
A personal note on writing The Bear
The Bear began as a story I used to tell my young sons about a bear who helped my father and me find our dog when I was a boy and he (the…
April 28, 2018
The Signal Flame is among the finalists for the 2018 Chautauqua Prize.
The winner will be announced in Mid-may. Read more about it at chq.org
March 23, 2018
Presenting the 2017 Dlpp Richard C Holbrooke Award to Colm Toibin
Presentation of Colm Tóbín for the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award at the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Dayton,…
June 21, 2017
NPR Interview
Listen to this interview with me on “ArtScene” with Erika Funkeon at WVIA Public Media
September 23, 2011
Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction 2012
Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction. Acceptance speech for The Sojourn.
April 11, 2011
Inspiration Behind The Sojourn
On my desk I kept a photograph I have of my grandfather, a boyish-looking seventeen, posing with three other “gunners” of the…
April 7, 2011
A Conversation on The Sojourn
Q: This kind of story is one that could fill volumes. How did you manage it in so few pages? What kind of research did you conduct?
A: When…
April 11, 2001
Excerpt from The Sojourn
ZLEE AND I WERE LUCKY TO HAVE JOINED UP TOGETHER. Basic training, with its weeks of constant drilling from dawn well into the night, seemed…