Kate Walbert | Kate Walbert

Dec.03.2012 A NOVEL ABOUT THE KOREAN WAR? I was working on my sixth novel and had just finished a single chapter detailing the major character’s being sent to Korea while serving in the U.S. Army. I did this with the full realization of what a friend had told me some years earlier. He had written a whole novel about the war and had...	Jul.13.2012 "M&M World”—What I learned from Kate Walbert at the Yale Writer’s Conference Somehow I'd missed Kate Walberg's two stories in the New Yorker. Indeed, before I went to New Haven I’d not heard of her except as part of the summer’s faculty. She was one of the four ‘Masters,’ but one I was not assigned to, so I wasn't invited to her more intimate morning...
Jun.18.2012 God and Kevin at Yale I’ve been enjoying the Yale Writer’s Conference for five days now. It’s different from the west coast, starting with the architecture, where they make their new buildings look old, on purpose. But it’s great. Terry Hawkins, the program’s director, has done such...	Apr.16.2012 It’s a Yale Summer; Not just Scotty but his Dad, too, is New Haven Bound When I realized that, at about the same time I’d be out in New Haven for Scotty’s play, Terrence Hawkins was organizing an intensive ten-day Writing Conference on the campus at Yale, I studied what he was up to. When I found the faculty included Tom Perrotta, Julia Glass, Richard Selzer,...
Dec.17.2010 Top Ten Novels by Women My last list of the year (I promise). I’ve had plenty of book groups asking me for recommendations, so here they are. In truth, with all the skirmishes lately over the New York Times and how many books by women are reviewed, sold, or placed on the most important book shelves, I gave myself a task...