Karen Douglass, Author

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Karen Douglass, Author: Prose & Poetry

  • I Write . . .

    To make a mark, like initials carved on a tree, because the digital world is not enough. To play with words and sounds because I can sing a tune only on the page. To run wild and barefooted through a vast field of images with all their sparks and connections. To be heard as a…

    January 25, 2014
  • Fill ‘er Up, Percy

    When I was a kid, my mother never had enough money to fill the tank on her old Chevy with one missing back fender. She would pull into Percy’s garage and buy a dollar’s worth of gas at a time. In those days that would last us a while and she’d parcel out the funds…

    January 18, 2014
  • The Big Read 2014

    Here in Broomfield, CO we embrace One Book, One City, in which many citizens all read a selected book and talk about it, listen to lectures and readings. Turns out we also have a national version, The Big Read, originated and promoted by the National Endowment for the Arts. This year The Big Read features…

    January 11, 2014
  • Beware the Bimbo Sleuth

    Early January is list time–resolutions, good intentions, tax forms to get, etc. Here’s one of my lists: Things I Don’t Like to Find in Mystery Stories. 1. Bimbo sleuth–a sexy female amateur who breaks the law to show us how inept the professionals are; (When she’s not meddling in police procedure, she has a job…

    January 4, 2014
  • Author’s Intentions v. Reader’s Perception

    Sena Jetter Nasland’s ninth novel, The Fountain of St. James Court: Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman, is a good read, mostly. I did carp to myself about the sumptuousness of both the language and the settings. The book is a novel within a novel, no mean feat, eh? The outer shell shows…

    December 28, 2013
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