Patricia Ann McNair

Are you curious to know what’s it like to live life as a writer, even if you don’t always know that’s what you are? To find out, read this original, engaging and deeply personal (yet highly relatable) book of essays that are really conversations with a witty, reflective, beer drinker bent upon understanding the narrative of her life. She’ll have you thinking about yours and wanting to buy her a cocktail to continue the conversation. McNair is fascinated by the symmetry and patterns of life—no judgments, just observations and wry notes about juxtapositions and how creativity happens. I so want her to flesh out the snippets of stories she offers up as examples of where creativity could have led her with this observation or that—the plot road that might have been taken.

This is a book for anyone interested in how creative people think and get their material. How memories loop back and around through time beginning with something small--a taste of coffee as revealing as a bite of one of Proust’s madeleines. Life is not means to an end, it’s just means and worth noting with an interesting punctuation mark that makes you wonder. And yet, buy the end of the book we know a great deal about the author and how she’s arrived where she is today.

When we share that cocktail I want her to tell me how she’d end the coyote story in the alley. May she keep observing, sharing…and writing.… (altro)