You don’t hear McCain talking about this endorsement.

It was suggested that I should start posting upcoming shows (thanks, Luke). I’ve meant to, but it always just slips my mind since I send out a weekly e-list to about 400 – 500 people on my list.

So here goes:

Peter Ferry, author of Travel Writing, Heather King, author of Redeemed, and Anne Roiphe, author of Epilogue.

I love these photos of Obama on the campaign trail for the last two years. So moving.

And these are fun and moving too.

Observational skills are a big deal for a writer–for anyone, actually, but especially for artists who need to see and to translate what they see into words. For me, photographs help me see what’s there. Here are a few from last night (my newly carved pumpkin) on through to this morning, just minutes ago. What do you see from where you sit, or when you get up and walk around your surroundings?

I’ve posted this link before (I think), but here it is again, Walter Mosley on why you need to visit with your writing daily.

Also, here’s a link to a poem that one devoted blog reader, J., thinks is perhaps the greatest thing he ever read.

If you have any links to writings you want us to read, please post!

An article on the reclusive Proulx.