Book Pilgrim
Barbara ShoupA place to celebrate good books and ponder the journeys they spark, both in the real world and in our heads.
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The Renovation
“I’m six years old and I smoke cigarettes,” has long been high on my list of All-time Favorite First Lines. The student who wrote it, at least thirty years ago, contacted me on Facebook a while back.
“Do you remember me?” she asked.
OMG,...
Looking for Jack Kerouac
I have a vivid memory of standing in the park across the street from my house with a writer friend who was telling me about his idea for a YA novel involving Jack Kerouac. 1964. A teenage kid, growing up (where I grew up) in northwest India...
The Greatest Possible Good
The first time I saw this cartoon, I had one of those lightbulb-over-the-head moments.
OMG. I’m not alone?
This was a long time ago, when, relatively new to adulthood, I had no clue that pretty much everyone had a dysfunctional family. No...
A Guardian and a Thief
I read A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar a while ago, but I keep thinking about it—especially these past weeks, the news once again dominated by images of “ordinary” people whose worlds have collapsed around them.
Set in a near-futu...
The Ha Ha
“At a tea party at Oxford University in the 1950s, earnest undergraduates in floral dresses clink cups, discussing their studies, sports, and summer balls. But to one student, Josephine, they are grotesquely transformed: she is sitting amon...
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Barbara Shoup is the author of nine novels and two books about writing. She is the Writer-in-Residence at the Indiana Writers Center and a faculty member at Art Workshop International.
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