This week, I read a book that’s grand. Not grand in the sense of large, epic, or sweeping, but grand in the sense of profound and deeply impressive. It’s Susanna Clarke’s PIRANESI, published in 2010. Susanna Clarke wrote JONATHAN STRANGE AND MR NORRELL, which IS…

A WRITING PROMPT FROM ME TO YOU: What is pleasant to one is unpleasant to another and vice versa. Write about a pleasant sound. MA

HELLO! My name is CHICKIE! I invented a new trick to fool Mommy. It’s called Headless Chickie. I hide my head, and Mommy goes, “Oh, no! Where’s Chickie’s head????” Then I show her and she’s so relieved! I think she secrickly knows I didn’t really…