Tag Archives: short story

Painters of the Suburban Landscape

Posted on March 15, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

This morning I was reading a New York Times review of Cheever: A Life, Blake Bailey’s new biography of John Cheever, and I was reminded of the recent passing of John Updike.  For me, it is nearly impossible to think … Continue reading →

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Grace in territory held largely by the devil

Posted on March 3, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

This week at Salon.com, Allen Barra has published a review of a new biography of Flannery O’Connor.  My first encounter with O’Connor was as a freshman English major in college, when I read “A Good Man is Hard to Find” … Continue reading →

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Stony Brook Again

Posted on December 24, 2008 by Fred Bubbers

I’ve re-posted these pictures from Stony Brook, NY.  I took them down because there was a dispute over who actually took them, my daughter or my sister.  I wasn’t there at the time, so I can’t say definitively who took … Continue reading →

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We’ll Always Have Saratoga

Posted on November 23, 2008 by Fred Bubbers

Every July for the past three years I have spent two weeks at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY, attending the New York State Summer Writers Institute. For me, it’s two weeks spent as far away from my normal life … Continue reading →

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Antietam National Battlefield

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Fred Bubbers

In spring of 2006 I was attempting a rewrite of a twenty-three year old story about a teacher at a prep school in upstate New York. The original story was awful, but there was something about the characters and their … Continue reading →

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