Leslie A. Lindsay

fiction

January 3, 2025

Musings & Meanderings: This is it. Art lives on…it’s just not going to be here anymore
November 3, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: Mark Haber on his new release, LESSER RUINS, how he likes the early-morning dream state for writing; plus me in 6th grade English, time and residencies
October 14, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: What happens when you see the ghost of your mother in your room? And it’s been years since she died and you return to your hometown? Cynthia Swanson talks about her new book, ANYONE BUT HER, how intuition, knowledge, and grief intertwine, plus where to write, how to write, embracing change
August 2, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: A new project–I could use your help! Plus, Cynthia Reeves on THE LAST WHALER, the power of doing it now, old photographs, writing craft, reading recommendations, and more
July 13, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: Can You tell a Writer what to Write about? (No). Also: where to submit, love languages, books about books, how to write without ego, and Lauren Aliza Green on THE WORLD AFTER ALICE
June 6, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: Writing rituals, the meaning of home, recommending books to writers, and what’s behind the rejections + Sheila Sundar on HABITATIONS
May 7, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: You know…you really should…plus imposter syndrome, what rejections teach, Amy Shearn on her new epistolary novel, DEAR EDNA SLOANE, shopping local (for books!), art + architecture
April 12, 2024

Musings & Meanderings D.J. Green, the geologist writer talks about finding home and yoga-as-muse in NO MORE EMPTY SPACES, plus me feeling old –slang, Richard Marx, how to support local arts, book bans, and more
February 6, 2024

Musings & Meanderings: Robin Oliveria turns her daughter’s room into an office, reads her work out loud while pacing the foyer of her home, and says all writers need life experience and determination, plus her new historical fiction A WILD & HEAVENLY PLACE–oh, and my tips on starting a new writing project
October 17, 2023

Musings & Meanderings: How can we create if we never rest? Balancing the creative life, plus Debbie Chein Morris on her WE USED TO DANCE about her disabled twin; the psychology of memoir, the arc of songs, the poetics of family archiving