But more than all those things I love and appreciate about Iowa, I can drive to Peoria to see family and friends, to Chicago to hang with more friends, take a longer drive to New Mexico.
Magers & Quinn Booksellers in Minneapolis
So, if you are still reading, you might understand why five hours before one of my favorite authors spoke at Mager & Quinn bookstore in Minneapolis, I got in the car and hightailed it up there to see her read from and discuss her new book, Hourglass: Time, Memory, Marriage.
Dani speaking to a full house.
I have had the privilege to study with Dani Shapiro on many occasions. I have read her memoirs Slow Motion and Devotion two times each. I’m well into a second reading of Hourglass. Her writing informs and inspires mine. She is a quiet, centered and a thoughtful woman. An author I could listen to for hours on end. “Seems a long way to drive to see Dani,” a friend said to me as I spoke to her speeding up the I-35. Its is never a long way to go to see Dani. A writer of fiction and memoir, I hope you’ll sit down and read one, or all of her books.
