D. A. Hosek

Tag: mary karr

  • Opening day of the Trying to Say God conference

    After a two hour trip on the South Shore Railroad (“The most uncomfortable seats on rails”™), I ended up at the South Bend Airport (“both taxis in South Bend are already here”™) and made my way to  otre Dame University for the “Trying to Say God” conference. This is a conference whose animating spirit is “revitalizing…

  • A year of reading

    So in 2013, I ended up reading a total of 114 books. Some interesting statistics along the way:  27.2% were written by women. Asians and Latinos each made up 2.6%. Blacks were 1.8%. I find these numbers to be rather disgraceful. 40.4% were for my MFA.  Two were in Spanish. Eleven were translated (from French,…