The Making of Pickett's Dream
Pickett’s Dream is a memory: of people, places, moments, longings, accidents of love—of something deeper than the material stuff of a tale that never happened. As fiction, it is a memory unaccountable to fact, and as its author, I have therefore lied in hopes of telling the truth. So, I give thanks to the places and people who helped to inspire the lie: who unwittingly came into my life to become a part of the story.
How the multi-million dollar Rosecliff Mansion became the setting for Pickett’s Dream
Backstory of Rosecliff Mansion “Rosecliff was not the grandest of the mansions. And this was part of its charisma. On a street that held dream after dream of nineteenth-century robber barons, who had come to believe in their monarchies in an unfortunately democratic state, its graceful restraint in the company...
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Pickett’s church in Ashfield, MA was inspired by a real house of worship- and a smoking acolyte
Backstory of Pickett’s church in Ashfield, Massachusetts As perplexed as I am about the beauty of wealth and the ugliness of greed, beneath this paradox, l think I’ve come to know a beauty greater than them both. Having grown up with the embarrassing assumption that privilege is “a gift from...
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The story of Paris & its journey into Pickett’s dream
Backstory of Paris “If Paris didn’t exist in the world, it would have to be invented. Something hangs in the burnished air that presumes its preeminence, as if to suggest that nothing on earth could have stopped this incarnation. In an otherwise hopelessly random world, there was nothing random about...
Read More..."If Paris didn’t exist in the world, it would have to be invented. Something hangs in the burnished air that presumes its preeminence: as if to suggest that nothing on earth could have stopped this incarnation..."
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