Over the last couple of days I've been corresponding with Maya Hanley, the daughter of Gerald Hanley, who wrote
Warriors , about which I've blogged at this
post and this
post .
Maya Hanley is currently at work on a memoir - spectacularly titled
Silence and the Black Wolf . In the course of researching her memoir, she came across my blog posts. She has thoughtfully written some responses to the posts, and about corresponding with one of her father's readers (me), on her blog,
The Sound of the Night ,
here .
Maya's father, Gerald, wrote
Warriors many years before it found a publisher, and now the original book in which it appeared,
Warriors and Strangers , is shamefully out of print. In her correspondence with me, Maya Hanley expressed a desire to see her father's books return to print - a sentiment with which I could not agree more fully.
But conversations about books are also a means of honoring the author, his or her text, the book's story and its ideas; dialogue is nothing short of keeping alive a book - or a person - liable to slip from our grasp. In writing about
Warriors , I was invigorated to participate in that process; in dialogue with Maya Hanley, that "keeping alive" function seems (to me) to have deepened considerably - one of the most moving rewards I've yet experienced from blogging.
Best of luck to Maya Hanley with her memoir. May the conversation about her work - and her father's - continue, and may many voices join!
(Image of Maya Hanley from
Twitter )
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Over the last couple of days I've been corresponding with Maya Hanley, the daughter of Gerald Hanley, who wrote Warriors, about which I've blogged at this post and this post. 
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