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About Meredith and Win Blevins
This looks like it will be an interesting blog. I’m glad to see the continued marketing of Stone Song. It was undoubtedly the best book I’ve read in the last five years and probably should be cataloged with Greek tragedies instead of Western literature. I also enjoyed Give Your Heart to the Hawks which was the first of Win’s books I read and resulted in giving me an insatiable appetite for Western literature.
Thanks, Bill, on both counts. You’re extraordinarily generous.
Keep writing!
Best — M & W