http://www.dystel.com/blog/2015/05/weather-or-not/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 http://www.dystel.com/blog/2015/05/weather-or-not/comment-page-1/#comment-41358 Wed, 13 May 2015 15:22:07 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=11385#comment-41358 As a Michigander, I feel compelled to cite the late Elmore Leonard’s number one rule for writing well: Never start a book with a description of the weather. Places other than the beginning, however…

]]> http://www.dystel.com/blog/2015/05/weather-or-not/comment-page-1/#comment-41329 Thu, 07 May 2015 15:44:56 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=11385#comment-41329 The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)! I read it so long ago that I barely remember the plot, but I can still feel the African weather descriptions.

]]> http://www.dystel.com/blog/2015/05/weather-or-not/comment-page-1/#comment-41325 Wed, 06 May 2015 17:27:15 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=11385#comment-41325 In honor of Mother’s Day, I’d like to recommend Beth Kephart’s “A Slant of Sun,” Annie Dillard’s “A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,” and all of Mary Oliver’s poetry collections. These women’s mastery of words and nature opened my mind to new depths of light and color, the vibrancy of fauna and flora, the heaviness of rain pouring on one divided soul, and the hope of the warm sun upon ones face.

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