Happy weekend, writers!
I'd say our first meeting of the
WriteByNight Story Club, on Tobias Wolff's "Bullet in the Brain," was a smashing success.
So let's do it again!
This month we're going to take a look at some nonfiction, an essay called "A Crooked Still
Life" from an Oregon writer named Margaret Malone.
Malone opens by detailing a road trip from Oregon to Boston, where her husband will undergo proton beam therapy (what?!) for a tumor behind his
eye:
"Anticipating the drive out," she writes, "I felt a melancholy kind of excitement. We'd ... felt like playing hooky from the heaviness of our life."
But of course the heaviness follows them to Boston. And then back to Oregon. And Malone's restlessness and anxiety throughout is something we'll all be painfully familiar with.
A link to the essay, as well as details on the story club process, can be found in this week's blog
post.
It's a quick essay, only 2,200 words, so I suggest reading it twice: once as a reader, a second time as a writer.
Let's keep this thing going strong, story clubbers!
