by David Payne | Sep 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
In 2000, while moving his household from Vermont to North Carolina, David Payne watched from his rearview mirror as his younger brother, George A., driving behind him in a two-man convoy of rental trucks, lost control of his vehicle, fishtailed, flipped over in the...
by David Payne | Aug 26, 2015 | Uncategorized
BAREFOOT TO AVALON By David Payne 294 pages. Atlantic Monthly Press. $26. In 2000, David Payne’s 42-year-old brother, George A., died in a highway crash while helping the author move to North Carolina. The accident is the impetus for this fine memoir, not its subject....
by David Payne | Aug 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
It’s always a risk to invite my husband along to a reading. Most of the time, he’d rather be watching the Panthers or re-runs of “L.A. Law.” But last week, we were both in for a unusual treat at Park Road Books. Hillsborough’s David Payne was reading from his...
by David Payne | Aug 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
A followup interview about my New York Times Op-Ed, “Why Group Therapy Worked” Listen here. ...
by David Payne | Aug 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
“From the first page, Payne’s evocative, often poetic prose will put you under its spell. His five novels, starting with the acclaimed “Confessions of a Taoist on Wall Street “ (1984), have earned Payne a reputation as one of the most gifted writers in America today....
by David Payne | Aug 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
“…a riveting meditation upon a family’s accursed history… what gives these biographical particulars their existential wallop is Payne’s raw, sustained intensity. Reading Payne can feel like a near-physical experience, of being swept along by sinister...
by David Payne | Aug 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
Two new personal histories, Lucas Mann’s Lord Fear and David Payne’sBarefoot to Avalon, struggle with questions of healing and recovery, refusing to make easy peace with the...
by David Payne | Aug 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
Why Group Therapy Worked By DAVID PAYNE AUGUST 11, 2015 3:30 AM August 11, 2015 3:30 am Comment Couch Couch is a series about psychotherapy. I first entered individual therapy in the late 1980s, in Manhattan. Once a week for six years I strolled happily northward up...
by David Payne | Aug 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
“An unflinching memoir about a violent childhood, mental illness, and scars that won’t heal…” — Patricia Ann...
by David Payne | Aug 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
“Payne has done something astonishing here.” — Betsy Burton, The King’s English Bookstore, Salt Lake City. Listen to her 2-minute radio review here.
