She notes that her Rhode Island stories have not always been well-received in her hometown. She says some people there consider it arrogant of her to write about Providence after having lived her adult life somewhere else. When she finished Home at Last, McGarry again believed she was through with this material. Her next published work, though, will be a novel about the newspaper business. The book is finished and in the hands of her agent.
Stories can be works of art.
I don't think novels are. A Hopkins writer recently completed a draft of a story and ran it through a spellcheck program. Medieval sex from five perspectives Professor of history John Baldwin has been working for some time on a study of the chivalric ethos of medieval knights. But when he came to a planned chapter on love, he ended up taking a detour and writing a separate book about medieval discourses on sexuality. Baldwin's approach is unique in that it combines clerical and lay perspectives.