Announcement… “Downwind from Trinity” 16 Jul 202016 Jul 2020 Today marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of perhaps the most significant event in human history up to now: the detonation for the first atomic bomb at the Trinity test site in…
Announcement… “Inside the Walls” 15 Jul 2020 After a dry June, with magazines finding it difficult to work amid both a pandemic and a vigorous protest season, I've got a credit to tell of: my short story…
Announcement Coming Soon, to a Small Screen Near You…in Fact, Probably in Your Hand 9 Jul 2020 Yesterday I was recorded reading a story and answering the usual writerly interview questions by the editors of Rock and a Hard Place magazine, a publication dedicated to "stories of…
Author post… Musings on Proust, part Six 21 Jun 2020 I am done (shall I say, "at long last"?) with A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, Tome II of La recherche. When last we left our hero, he was…
Announcement California Dreamin’ 2 Jun 2020 Times are tough: not only do we have the new coronavirus to watch out for, which requires constant vigilance against an invisible assailant, but we have the all-too-visible assailants driven…
Announcement… Novella Time 20 May 2020 I have begun writing a novella, that odd in-between genre, much too long to be a short story, but rarely long enough to be called a novel in most literary…
Author post… Musings on Proust, part 5 13 May 202013 May 2020 I have at last finished with part 2 of tome 2, and I must give Proust some credit: the sentence structure is less tormented now, though the protagonist is more…
Announcement… Live Virtual Reading 11 May 202011 May 2020 Live events being off the table for now, Rich Soos, editor at Cholla Needles, just set up a virtual table: he asked all the poets who have been featured lately…
Announcement… “The Wedding” 1 May 20201 May 2020 My short story, "The Wedding," has just come out in North Dakota Quarterly, published by the University of Nebraska Press. The fiction editor cut the short last paragraph, but the…
Author post Half a Face Is Better than None 27 Apr 202027 Apr 2020 There are pleasures to be found even in lockdown. There are discoveries to be made in the small minutes of living that make up so much more of our lives…
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