Curt Brown has written three books and two e-books — all nonfiction — on everything from Lake Superior gales to the barber poles. (www.tinyurl.com/curt-books). He spent the bulk of his writing career in daily journalism at the Minneapolis Tribune, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Fergus Falls (Minn.) Daily Journal and the Associated Press. He moved to a trout stream near Durango, Colo., in 2014 from where he writes a Minnesota history column every Sunday in the Star Tribune.
Why I like it: I imagine my high school grammar teacher, Ms. Weiner, trying to diagram this sentence. We all seek characters to drive our stories. Here, Kerouac lists requirements for the characters that attract him — … Read more
“I work like a watchmaker or an old-fashioned silversmith: one eye screwed up, the other fitted with a watchmaker’s magnifying glass, with a fine tweezers between my fingers, with bits of paper … in front of me on my desk … Read more
