The Power of Stories
Once again, as an election barrels toward us in the U.S., we desperately need stories of hope to outshine spreading tales of hatred and fear…
read moreThat Untraveled World
Occasional musings about stories, history, art, ideas, and journeys of the imagination: everything that makes me want to write…
read moreMy Advice to Writers
I’m often asked for advice on how to become a writer. The answer is to write. If you’re aiming at fiction, forget about “writing what you know”…
read moreSerendipity: Adventures in Writing
“I don’t know.” Three simple words. One potent and seductive phrase that led to a remote loch in the Scottish Highlands as I researched Haunt Me Still…
read moreReduced Shakespeare Podcast: The Shakespeare Secret
Jennifer talks with Austin Tichenor about writing “Interred With Their Bones”…
read more“Her Writing Journey”
“She timed escape routes on two continents, planned arson, and scouted the perfect place to commit murder…”
read moreShakespeare in the Wild West: Jennifer on Arizona Spotlight
Jennifer talks about Shakespeare’s popularity in the Wild West with James Reel on AZPM’s “Arizona Spotlight” (Oct. 26, 2007)…
read moreLost Treasure in the Library
One autumn evening early in graduate school, poking about in a corner of Harvard’s Widener Library, I came upon an old set of books…
read moreHow the Bard Won the West: Back Story
In the summer of 1997, I drove 1200 miles around the American West looking for Shakespeare, on assignment from the Smithsonian Magazine…
read moreHow I Came to Write about Smallpox
I’m often asked how I came to write about smallpox. I found Lady Mary in a literary footnote fantasizing about Circassian slaves…
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