‘You Can’t Catch Death: A Daughter’s Memoir’ by Ianthe Brautigan, St. Martin’s Press, 2000

A French memoirist inspires a Maine writer.

In March, my daughter called me in a panic. One of her college friends had tested positive for the coronavirus and had been sent to isolate in a designated building. My daughter and four other friends had recently tested negative, she told me, but they had spent time with the infected friend, so they were […]

The master of horror’s latest literary protagonist is an assassin-turned-aspiring novelist.