Storytelling is a uniquely human art form. Birds can sing songs and monkeys can paint pictures, but only a human can tell a story. The realm of the story exists outside of time. Whereas we walk from present to present, with the past behind us and the future ahead, a story can jump from past to future to present and back to past all within a few sentences.

SOME OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS, stories and other:
—Light Years by James Salter
—The Waves by Virginia Woolf
—East of Eden by John Steinbeck
—The Years by Annie Ernuax
—The Outline Trilogy by Rachel Cusk
—Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
—Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore
—Love Is a Dog From Hell by Charles Bukowski
—Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
—Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector
—Reality Hunger by David Shields
—Lust and Other Stories by Susan Minot
—Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
—Walden by Henry David Thoreau
—Autumn by Karl One Knausgaard
—The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
—A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
—Goodbye Columbus (title short story only) by Philip Roth
—Our Town by Thornton Wilder (play)
—Topdog/Underdog by Suzan Lori Parks (play)
—Waiting for Gadot by Samuel Beckett (play)