The Dry Season

the difference between writing and publishing

Here she is! My strawberry lemonade Sappho, the face of my fifth book. I’ve had a crush on this 1877 painting by Auguste Charles Mengin for years. It was the wallpaper on my computer screen during the year that I describe in The Dry Season, and it was a touchstone while I wrote the book. It hangs in the Manchester Art Gallery, at about seven feet tall. …