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An Indie Next PickAn English professor in a sleepy college town, Tom Putnam spends his days browsing the Shakespeare shelves at the campus bookstore, managing his oddball department faculty, and caring for his wife Marjory, a fragile shut-in whose neuroses were exacerbated by Tom's brief, misguided affair a decade earlier. Then out of the blue Marjory invites Rose Callahan, the bookstore's charming new hire, to dinner. And Tom wonders if change is on the horizon.
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I'm both a college dropout (Mount Holyoke) and a grad school dropout (the University of Virginia.)
My first real job was as a teacher's aide in a pilot Head Start program in Greensboro, North Carolina. Since the turn of the century, I've been attached to WMRA, the Little Public Radio Station that Can, in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and actively freelanced for the NPR Culture Desk and for npr.org.
Before that - among a lot of other things, I co-owned restaurants, did a bit of acting, was fired as a magazine editor, hosted local TV talk shows and anchored the news, was a country music disc jockey and a psychiatric occupational therapy aide, taught preschool, published a bunch of essays, was a morning drive-time personality on a tiny AM radio station, ran a college bookstore coffee shop, directed a college's co-curricular programming, and failed to sell cars.
I live in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. My closest neighbors are cows.
