Nobody disrespects Joshua Lawrence Chamerlain and gets away with it. I will not rest until I've smashed every last kazoo in Maine for this egregious slight.
I bet I'd enjoy one of her readings!
A British expat co-worker turned me on to Carolyn Chute around the time The Beans of Egypt, Maine first came out. Gotta get this new book.
I mutter to myself in the tampon aisle all the time. It transitions nicely into muttering to myself by the lube. Can I be a writer too?
This is the bit that blew my mind:
"Mr. Chute, her second husband, is illiterate and used to work as a woodcutter and gravedigger. They married in 1978 ..."
Illiterate and married to a writer for 30 years? I can't imagine.