![]() ![]() ![]() I suppose jealousy could be another reason, the writer Wilfred Sheed wrote once in The New Yorker that “every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.” Sheed wasn’t being nasty, he was being honest. I guess it’s too much like work, in a way, it’s hard to get your head out of being at the podium, I’ve done a reading at Northshire every year for 15 years. I rarely go to other author’s book readings, and they rarely come to mine. ![]() I learned that she would be at Northshire Books tonight in nearby Manchester and Maria and I went to see her, there was a huge crowd all the way out to the children’s book section. The book is the number one seller in England and has gotten rave reviews all over the world. I read a wonderful book a couple of weeks ago by the British writer and scholar Helen Macdonald – H Is For Hawk – and it was beautifully strange, wonderful, mystical and touching. ![]()
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