LB’s Blog
The Un-Making Of Madness
Here’s the latest installment in my sporadically produced interactions with writers whose works I admire. I present here, David Fitzpatrick’s dazzling new work. In his just released first novel, Wolf-Boy, Running Wild Press, July 2024, David Fitzpatrick exemplifies the oft quoted writer’s directive to “write what you know.” While that’s an ambiguous task that can encompass an enormous expanse of experience, in Fitzpatrick’s case, he writes about life crumbling from the inside out and reassembling it from the...
read moreA Silver Reindeer and Sleigh
My husband is from the Salzkammergut region of Austria. Lakes and what they consider low, but very old mountains. His uncle, Richard Leutner, was born, raised, and lived in the small, historic village (okay let’s be honest Austria is nothing but small historic villages) of Henndorf where he and my husband’s aunt Berta, nee Laimer, lived in a 400 year old house (below). To give a reference point, it was originally built when Rembrandt was up in Amsterdam painting masterpieces and sipping tea with Spinoza. The house,...
read more