My Work
The Building of Books and Poetry
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“LT Garvin writes with a sly humor that will even make the most stoic adult laugh.”
Welcome to my writing life:
I have always been a literature fan and an avid reader. I started writing poetry when I was in junior high school then short stories when I was in high school. In college, I discovered a treasure trove of works by amazing literary masters, plus I had to read them because they were assigned, and I had to pass in order to move on to the next level. I loved some of the great wonders of literature, and the others, well they expanded my mind.
I have even come to appreciate T.S. Eliot’s: The Wasteland as an English professor told me that I would (at that time, in the 1980s I was busy appreciating Duran Duran, and thought she must be out of her mind). Although I have to admit, the line in the poem about “showing fear in a handful of dust” did stick with me, and it seems very appropriate during a historic drought.
I always had good intentions of writing The Great American Novel, but life and making a living got in the way, as it sometimes does plus: sports, teenagers, dinner, laundry, mowing the grass, and writing papers about the history of print, which I think might have put that professor to sleep too. Also, just like everyone else, I’ve got that Amazon author page.
https://www.amazon.com/author/ltgarvin
Kirkus Review
DANCING WITH THE SANDMAN
BY L.T. GARVIN ‧ RELEASE DATE: MARCH 15, 2018
Garvin’s (And They Came, 2017, etc.) latest novel offers a reflection of one girl’s coming-of-age in small-town Texas in the 1960s.
Billie Jo Dunstan has returned to her hometown of Viney to help her mother move. Along the way, she can’t help but to reflect on the changing times. Short, scattered vignettes about friends and family…
