“Flesh and Blood Ideas in J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello ,” my new craft essay about one of my favorite books is out in
CRAFT at https://www.craftliterary.com/2021/08/03/flesh-blood-ideas-coetzees-elizabeth-costello/
Side by Side but Never Face to Face asks, Can new love be found in old age? Greta has been wrenched from a long and tightly-circled marriage to Manfred, an Austrian Holocaust survivor. Together they mourned the accidental death of a daughter and experienced a widening of spiritual horizons as they grieved. Shifting between Chicago, Austria, and rural Wisconsin, the present and decades past, these linked narratives unfold the story of Greta—daughter, wife, mother, widow, survivor, and seeker—with profound i