I always find myself flipping back the the author photos on the jackets of books I’m reading, just curious about the authors and trying to get to know them a little by studying their faces. And if I’m reading a second book by an author I’ve read before, I’m always bummed when they re-use the […]
Last summer, reader and blogger Natasha Maw did an interview with me on her Maw Books Blog. One of her questions was about a tomato-lime soup that I’d written about in The Bright Side of Disaster. She thought the soup sounded good, and wondered if I had the recipe. Of course, many of things in […]
Karen Walrond is running an interview with me today on her fabulous, gorgeous, thoughtful blog, Chookooloonks. I could explain how we met, and became buddies, and happened to be working on eerily similar projects about women and beauty, but she does it so perfectly, I won’t even try. She’s also running a giveaway for an […]
I just had an essay selected for the Dallas Museum of Art’s fantastic Texas Bound Reading Series. For the series, Texas-connected actors read the work of Texas-connected writers. Actors who have performed in the series include Kathy Bates, Tommy Lee Jones, Larry Hagman, and Marcia Gay Harden. The performance will take place in early April 2009. […]
A feisty UK website for women readers, Trashionista, just gave Bright Side a great review! The review says: “I mentioned the other day that I loved Katherine Center’s The Bright Side of Disaster and I really did. It’s been a couple of days since I finished reading it and I wish I hadn’t. I miss […]
I had a chance to appear on a panel for an “Arts Town Hall” at the University of Houston’s Hilton hotel this week. Professor of English Elizabeth Brown-Guillory brought artists and arts administrators from every discipline together to talk about how the arts can support and nurture each other. The panel also included novelist Chitra […]
Here’s what happens when I’m really in a groove with writing: I see everything in a split-screen. Like, I’ll be washing dishes and listening to my kids play Naked Zoo Animals on one side of my brain, but on the other side, just as vivid, I’m keeping an eye on the imaginary people from the […]
I’m finally doing it. I love to read blogs. But, with two little kids and many stories playing themselves out in my head most of the time, lots of nights I fall asleep still in my clothes. You know, really. My plate is full. Overly full. Spilling off onto the table. But that has to […]