by Mary | Jun 29, 2018 | An Unremembered Life, Current events
There are a lot of variations on “those who do not study the past are doomed to repeat it.” My response has always been, “Those of us who do study the past are doomed, too. We just feel worse about it.” We are living in a country that past...
by Mary | Nov 18, 2016 | An Unremembered Life, Current events, Jane Dystel, What I'm working on now., Writer Tech
While working on each of my previous six novels, I assumed it was either the only or the last story I’d ever write. Even follow-on books like Children of God and Epitaph came as a surprise to me. So I’m amazed to find that I’ve begun to do the...
by Mary | Jun 18, 2012 | Current events
Reviewed for the Cleveland Plain Dealer by Mary Doria Russell, June 17, 2012: Let me begin by saying what this book isn’t. It isn’t an easy beach read and it isn’t about dogs. The evocative title The Hour Between Dog and Wolf refers to the medieval...
by Mary | Jun 2, 2012 | Current events, Writer Tech
Hello. My name is Mary, and I am a recovering anthropologist. It’s been over 20 years since I worried about tenure, but I suppose I will always be an anthropologist. As Ray Bucko, my dearest Jesuit friend, once told me, “Having a Ph.D. is a permanent condition –...
by Mary | Feb 27, 2012 | Current events, DOC, Just for fun!, Uncategorized, What I'm working on now.
It’s getting ugly out there on the campaign trail, but I am determined to keep running for president, as long as no actual physical running is involved, because I love my country enough to write a blog essay about it. In a stunning act of political courage, I...
by Mary | Jan 16, 2012 | A THREAD OF GRACE, Current events, DOC, THE SPARROW
I got email this morning from a reader who had just finished Doc and who was kind enough to take the time to tell me how he reacted to the book. “I have been a police officer in Wichita, KS for 24 years,” he wrote, “and know a little of the politics...
