I’ve already written the note I’ll leave for my wife if Daisy ever walks in my door. What ever happened to epic poetry? Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character? Who?ĭaisy Saunders in Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Gate of Angels. I’m also reading Longfellow’s Song of Hiawatha, mainly because the rhyme scheme reminds of the old Hamm’s Beer jingle from my childhood. I very, very rarely put down a book before finishing it, however, so I will continue to slog on. The man is a brilliant writer but the book is spoiled by too much (in my opinion) minutiae about Woodrow Wilson’s life. He lives with his wife Margaret and way too many golf clubs in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Ī. McInerny is a third generation municipal golfer with a handicap that hovers between 12 and 15. The official About stuff from the Pike’s Plaque website: You can also read a little bit of it for yourself, there’s a three-chapter excerpt of the novel on the book’s website. Want to know more? Check out this WCCO interview with Stephen where he talks about his book and how it’s about more than a golf course. McInerny is the author of the just released novel Pike’s Plaque, about a young man running a municipal golf course in a small midwestern city. It sounds exactly like someone else I know (that would be me). A copywriter by day and a fiction writer by later that same day. This week on 6 Questions We Always Ask we offer up answers by a writer after my own heart.
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