Announcement Recorded Live, Now on Podcast 28 Jul 2019 LA’s Skylight Bookshas put last month's Switchblade Magazine author’s evening up in a podcast! You can hear me read "Off the Deep End" (soon to appear in The Metaworker magazine) near the beginning…
book review Short Story Review: Chekhov’s “Ward No. 6” as a Discourse on Privilege 23 Jul 201922 Oct 2023 Anton Chekhov's "Ward No. 6" is a long short story, almost a novella, but most of all it is a story about how the beneficiaries of privilege blind themselves to…
Author post Coming Attractions 19 Jul 2019 I don't usually post about stories I've sold until they're actually published, but then I figured, our friends in the movie biz shriek out teasers all the time, so I…
Announcement “Lucky Day” 14 Jul 201914 Jul 2019 Another story published! Front Porch Review has just published its July issue, including my short story, "Lucky Day." This is my second appearance in the magazine. It's the story of…
book review Book Review: “Life and Fate,” by Vasily Grossman 7 Jul 20198 Sep 2019 Life and Fate, by Vasily Grossman. It is no surprise that a book with perhaps the most Russian title ever--Life and Fate--weighs in at 871 pages in its English translation.…
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