Jul 30, 2024 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes
A summer reverie in Italy with my family this August. An amazing trip… and I wrote many long and elaborate journal entries (which no doubt will lead to a novel set in Italy one of these days…). For now, enjoy a few photos from our adventures!
Dec 18, 2023 | Current Ned Note, News and Media, Past Notes
I’m happy to have a new piece in Oregon’s ArtsWatch. This “Artist Profile” outlines the history of “Christmas Carol” director Charles Grant. Since arriving in town in 2016, Grant has made his mark in an array of roles on stage and...
Oct 4, 2022 | Book Media, Current Ned Note, News and Media, On Books
The Eagle Tree by Ned Hayes is visiting the White Salmon Valley Community Library in October 2022. The award-winning novel The Eagle Tree will be featured in the “Everybody Reads” book program created by the local library system program. One of the centerpieces of the...
Jun 3, 2018 | Current Ned Note, On Books, Past Notes
(received this for Christmas — a couple spoilers inline here) Neil Gaiman’s Marvel 1602 re-creates the Marvel universe as it might have been if it wasn’t born in 1950s America, but instead in Elizabethan England. I found 1602 to embody all the...
Apr 8, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes
One of the books that rocked my world as a young adult was Ursula K. Le Guin’s Left Hand of Darkness. The reason this book struck me with such force in young adulthood is that it emphasized different aspects of the typical science-fiction journey. I read many...