Cynthia Harrison

Novelist

Year: 2004

  • Bob Dylan’s Chronicles

    Not finished with it yet, but mostly am loving this story. The rambling boho poet style Dylan perfected in his songs is evident in every sentence of this first installment of his autobiography–which is surprisingly coherent. Devoid of the mystifying metaphors embedded in his song lyrics, Dylan here talks straight about his early days in…

  • A Very Bloggy Christmas

    My Family Literary blogs are yet another fascinating way to avoid writing. Three of my faves are MoorishGirl, Blog of a Bookslut and Bookninja. And then there’s California, where I wish I could be right now (it’s damn cold in Michigan and the whole White Christmas idea is IMO vastly overrated). Son Mike, who is…

  • Rusty

    Christmas Break…Be Back Soon…Rusty sends love

  • Complete

    Finished the book yesterday. Revising took a little longer than I thought it would. I saw near the end how abrupt and weird it would be to give short shrift to the funeral, so I let it unfold a bit slower, and it ended up taking four scenes instead of one. So, yay, I got…

  • Gossamer Wings

    If I had to use one word to describe my writing process, gossamer would be the word. It evokes all the things that my process is: a magical web that’s so thin to be almost invisible, fragile yet strong, gorgeous, shining, mystical, illusive, fluttery and seductive are all aspects of what that one word conjures.…