Who I am.

I write about the landscape of grief, nature, and the wisdom of fools. The author of four books, my essays, poems, and reviews have been published in over 50 journals, including in the Huffington Post and Colorado Review. I’ve won the River Teeth Nonfiction Book Award, the Chautauqua and Literal Latte’s essay prizes, and my work has been nominated for four Pushcart Prizes and named a notable by Best American Essays. My account of hiking in Yosemite to deal with my wife’s death, Mountains of Light, was published by the University of Nebraska Press. http://www.markliebenow.com.

Friday, June 27, 2014

Inspector Morse and the Labyrinth of the First Death



Those of us who are members of grief’s subculture don’t always want superficial diversions to fill the empty hours and spaces, even though many of our days are ponderously heavy and shaded charcoal gray. Sometimes we want to dive into our chaos in intelligent and challenging ways in an effort to understand it. The Inspector Morse mystery series helped me do this.

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This essay was published by The Back Road Café, a British journal. You can read the full text at: http://www.thebackroadcafe.com/cafe-journal/2014/4/6/inspector-morse-and-the-labyrinth-of-the-first-death.html

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