In an earlier post, writer Pamela Balluck chatted with WanderChic about her book projects and enduring love of microfilm. This time Pam talks travel rituals, snow, lust for writers’ colonies, and “car as sanctuary.” The photo of Pam, above, was taken by Howard Romero at the Vermont Studio Center. Pam shot the ones below: on […]
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Road Trip Novelist: An Interview with Pamela Balluck (Part I)
One of my favorite writers, Pamela Balluck, finds writing material on the road, in big Western skies, and in newspaper archives. She recently shared her insights about the intersections of travel, memory, fiction, and family. Plus Pam whips out adjectives like “Jed-Clampett-like” and “dinosaurish.” The photo above was taken by Pam’s “East Coast cousin” Barbara […]
Writing Stylish Postcards: Take the Haiku Challenge
For my birthday a few years ago, my friend Molly gave me a slim book called the haiku year. It changed not only the way I thought about haiku but also about postcards. In the book’s preface, Tom Gilroy explains that the friends pledged to write a haiku a day and send them to each […]