Interviewing Millicent Dillon

You ask if a man who wrote as Jane did would be more famous? A man, of course, could not write as she did.—Millicent Dillon Over the course of her illustrious forty-year writing career, Millicent Dillon has won five O. Henry awards and been nominated for a PEN/Faulkner. She has… Read more“Interviewing Millicent Dillon”

Gobsmacked! Carolyn Cassady interview, Part 1

Dean merely looked at Camille, pointed at his wrist, made the sign “four”. . .and went out. At three the door was locked to Roy Johnston. At four it was opened to Dean.—Jack Kerouac, On the Road Neal turned back abruptly and, taking a step or two toward me, raised… Read more“Gobsmacked! Carolyn Cassady interview, Part 1”

Linking to Millicent Dillon

This week we’re linking to an excerpt from a novel by Millicent Dillon, A Version of Love. I know who Dillon is because in 1995 I stumbled across her biography of Jane Bowles in a bookshop in lower Fillmore in San Francisco, A Little Original Sin, introducing me to the… Read more“Linking to Millicent Dillon”