EARLY WORK

For young writers of a certain temperament?if they havent had such notions beaten out of them by MFA programs and the Internet?the delusion persists that great writing must be sought in what W. B. Yeats once called the foul rag and bone shop of the heart. That s where Peter Cunningham has been looking for inspiration for his novel?that is, when he isnt teaching at the local womens prison, walking his dog, getting high, and wondering whether its time to tie the knot with his college girlfriend, a medical student whose night shifts ha...[Read more]