by Calling Card Books and Z Girls Press | Mar 5, 2023 | Dan Juday
The first place I rented in Washington, DC, was Hartnett Hall. This was in the spring of 1975, in the DuPont Circle neighborhood. The hall was an aggregation of 19th Century townhouses, nearly half a city block long, whose once-spacious interiors had been walled off...
by Calling Card Books and Z Girls Press | Dec 5, 2022 | Dan Juday
I am staying in an Airbnb rental in Valencia for a week, in a half-acknowledged re-examination of a long-ago formative period. I have reached the age when the view behind me is more enticing than the one ahead. I chose the flat for its central location in Ruzafa, the...
by Calling Card Books and Z Girls Press | Jun 10, 2021 | Dan Juday
Introducing a selection of poems from memoirist, Dan Juday to celebrate the publication of his debut novel Waltzing a Two-Step: Reckoning Family, Faith, and Self which will be released on September 15, 2021. In his memoir, Dan recounts life as a Catholic-school child...
by Calling Card Books and Z Girls Press | Nov 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
To celebrate the release of our Shakespeare themed coloring book, Color The Bard: A Coloring Book Featuring the Sonnets, Sound, And Fury of William Shakespeare, we’ve collected some of his most famous quotes about life and love. Though William Shakespeare has...
by Calling Card Books and Z Girls Press | Jul 3, 2020 | Books, Writing
In his book The Hero With A Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell lays out “The Hero’s Journey” inspired by psychoanalyst Carl Jung’s take on myths from various cultures around the world. Much more complicated than Freytag’s Pyramid, this framework for storytelling...