Paul McHugh comments:
I knew I wanted to be a story-teller right from the first grade – when I managed to spellbind all my classmates and even my teacher by rendering an account of the recent sinking of the Italian luxury cruise liner, Andrea Doria in the Atlantic. (I had committed that yarn to memory the previous summer, when my father read accounts to me from the Miami Herald.) But I had thought I would tell most of my stories as a priest at the pulpit, or then, as a poet or teacher at a lectern. But, nope! My path as a story-teller has mostly led me to be a pro in prose.
Here’s a collection of stuff from my literary past. Each item comes with a short note detailing its location on my writer’s trajectory.
NB: Another McHugh archive, from my 22 years at the San Francisco Chronicle, can be found at the newspaper’s Web site:
www.sfgate.com/columnists/mchugh/archive
Read The Opening Chapter of the new novel, "Deadlines."
Recent Publications
- Moseley, Marinscope, February 24, 2010
- Review, January 21, 2010
- Taking mass transit to peak experiences in the Bay Area. Outdoors page of The San Francisco Chronicle, January 7, 2010
- Hiking and climbing in Castle Rock State Park.Bay Nature magazine, Jan-March, 2010
- Survival tip when you fall through ice. Sierra magazine, Jan.-Feb. 2010
Writing Archive
- Writer's Retreat: Homage to Barnhill (George Orwell's Desolate Barnhill on the Inner Hebrides"), San Francisco Chronicle, March 18, 2007
- Maverick's Big Wave Surfing, NY Times, 2008
- Maverick's Backgrounder, NY Times, 2008
- Outdoor Business, 1985
- DeeJays, 1984
- BowHunt, 1979
- Foraging, 1970
- Shasta Preacher
- Riders on the Storm
- VA Xmas
- Snakebit!
- Mount Trashmore
- B17s