Photo by Dmitry Ratushny, Unsplash.com Over the past month I’ve celebrated the April launch of my short stories, The Open Door and Other Tales of Love and Yearning, by engaging in four literary conversations with fellow authors members of our vibrant literary community. At the Kensington Park Library, my memoir workshop produced [...]
After closing my laboratory in 2009 after fifty years of research on gene expression and evolution of the eye, I turned my attention to writing and finishing my novel, Jellyfish Have Eyes (IPBooks, 2014). I had taken workshops in fiction at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, written short stories and started the novel more than [...]
Last night I attended the final of three excellent workshops at The Writer’s Center led by Zahara Heckscher on obtaining agents for publishing fiction and memoir. Jeff Kleinman, an agent at Folio Literary Management, was kind enough to call in and give us an informal snapshot of what agents are looking for. There are a [...]
Last week I talked about ekphrasis: the pairing of art with words. I relate to the art of pairing art with words much like like one pairs wines with food. The flavors of each enhance the other, allowing us to best savor the two. The following print, Polar Patterns, was created by my wife, Lona, to accompany a [...]
I’m knee deep in being an author and finishing up my second book on personal essays in a memoir form. What an experience to confront one’s identity and revisit one’s life – childhood, passions, dreams, efforts, disappointments – from a new perspective. Stayed tuned for this book; it’s coming. Such personal reflections bring home the [...]
Bob Bausch (left), friend and author, and I at a writer's workshop in Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. In my last blog of this series, I'd broken the ice and started writing fiction. But I needed to find a way to fit writing into my busy schedule as a scientist and to learn the [...]
