by Tess Callahan | Feb 27, 2017 | bookstores, interviews
In this interview with Daniel Ford of the Writer’s Bone podcast, we explore writing process, craft, and advice for aspiring writers. I also describe how my new novel came to me like a fly ball. Writer’s Bone Podcast: Episode 169: Daniel Ford Interview with...
by Tess Callahan | Oct 20, 2016 | talks
Can we boost our creative goals by constraining them? Here is a counter-intuitive method of unleashing creativity by putting chains on it. Like Houdini, the imagination likes to use its wits to unshackle itself. This talk explores artists and writers who sought out...
by Tess Callahan | May 8, 2012 | bookstores
Talking Leaves Books in Buffalo, New York, co-founded by Jonathon Welch, has a contagious passion for books that are idiosyncratic, unusual, original, and stem from inquiring, free-spirited and independent minds. They feel that as our culture becomes more uniform, the...
by Tess Callahan | May 8, 2012 | bookstores
Terry Gilman, owner of Mysterious Galaxy Books in San Diego, is one of the great book lovers of the West Coast. She organized an LA-based “Ladies, Lunch & Literacy” series which brought debut authors to the South Bay to read, give a talk, and enjoy lunch with...
by Tess Callahan | May 8, 2012 | bookstores
The family-owned Book Revue in Huntington, New York, where I read on July 9, 2009 and July 15, 2010, evolved into a Long Island community and cultural center which offered workshops, book groups and children’s programs. It had a long history of hosting celebrity...
