by Mary | Mar 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
Reviewed for The Washington Post by Mary Doria Russell, March 6, 2012: Unlike the lucky students of classicist Madeline Miller, I was never exposed to Homer in my youth. Until I was 60 and writing about Doc Holliday (who read the classics in their original languages),...
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 | Feb 21, 2012 | DOC on HBO, The Cure For Anger, What I'm working on now., Writer Tech
Everybody’s routine goes to hell during the holidays, which is why January is such a relief for people like me. I like a nice comfortable rut. Few things make me happier than looking at the calendar and seeing an entire week of sweet nothing stretching out...
by Mary | Feb 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
One week on, and life is starting to get back to normal. Annie the Dachshund is doing her best to take our minds off the loss of Leo the Retriever by having an episode of back trouble, so we can pay attention even more attention to her than usual. Four hundred years...
by Mary | Feb 10, 2012 | Uncategorized
Ten and a half is a good long life for a big dog like a golden retriever. The vet agrees that we’re doing the right thing. Hard as it will be, we have no doubts either. So I just made Leo’s last appointment. Leo’s back left knee has been lame...
by Mary | Feb 5, 2012 | DOC on HBO, The Cure For Anger, What I'm working on now., Writer Tech
Not sure we really need the comma in that quote, but that’s how Pearson’s Law is written in business and engineering circles. The saying was popularized by Peter Drucker, a business consultant who was particularly influential in Japan, where implementing...
by Mary | Jan 22, 2012 | DREAMERS OF THE DAY, Writer Tech
Yesterday an email came in asking me a technical question about writing historical fiction about a real person. “My subject wrote an autobiography in the 1940s…. How does one handle first-person material without plagiarizing? If your subject recounts a...
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...
by Mary | Jan 6, 2012 | Just for fun!
The press office of the Russell for President campaign has issued a clarification of Mary Doria Russell’s misstatement yesterday regarding lavender as her favorite color. “Ms. Russell regrets any damage to marriage, religion and the nation that may have...
by Mary | Jan 5, 2012 | Current events, DOC, Just for fun!
Well, my fellow Americans, I got fewer delegates in Iowa than John Huntsman but I am not discouraged, and I am NOT a quitter like Michelle Bachmann, who told everyone that she’s America’s Iron Lady because she read a biography of Margaret Thatcher and...
