Nothing but Ghosts, Chanticleer Garden, and Reflections on Place
Sunday, September 14, 2008
I'm thinking out loud about place today on this vlog. I'm also sharing some recent photos of that most-exquisite Chanticleer garden, where my fifth memoir was rooted, and where many scenes from Nothing but Ghosts, due out next June, take place. Nothing but Ghosts is fiction; Chanticleer is, on those pages, correspondingly transformed. What matters is the first impulse—the shadows and bird song and watercress creek that fired my imagination, the details that only geography and terrain can yield.
