Author post Personal History, Part I 10 Aug 201712 Aug 2017 I confess that I wrote this years ago for an earlier website, but since it's all looking backwards, it still holds true. "Personal History, Part II" is still being written,…
Author post No Regrets 8 Aug 201710 Aug 2017 Long ago (but not far away), back at the dawn of time, I made a decision for which I've often been mocked and derided over the concatenated decades since: I…
Announcement… 85,021 6 Aug 20178 Aug 2017 The third novel now stands at 85,021 words. This is close to what I'd envisioned as its final bulk, and in fact the first draft is close to finished. Just…
Author post… Recursions, Part 6: Christopher Hitchens’s “Unacknowledged Legislation” 3 Aug 20175 Aug 2017 This is the sixth in a series of short critical looks at books of literary criticism. Yes, a writer writing about writers who write about writers! I composed these for…
Author post… Recursions, Part 5: Flannery O’Connor’s “Mystery and Manner” 30 Jul 201730 Jul 2017 This is the fifth in a series of short critical looks at books of literary criticism. Yes, a writer writing about writers who write about writers! I composed these for…
Author post… Recursions, Part 4: Jane Smiley’s “Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel” 28 Jul 2017 This is the fourth in a series of short critical looks at books of literary criticism. Yes, a writer writing about writers who write about writers! I composed these for…
Author post… Recursions, Part 3: James Baldwin’s “Notes of a Native Son” 23 Jul 201724 Jul 2017 This is the third in a series of short critical looks at books of literary criticism. Yes, a writer writing about writers who write about writers! I composed these for…
Author post… Recursions, Part 2: Janet Malcolm’s “Forty-One False Starts” 20 Jul 201720 Jul 2017 This is the second in a series of short critical looks at books of literary criticism. Yes, a writer writing about writers who write about writers! I composed these for…
Author post… Recursions, Part 1: Virginia Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own” 18 Jul 201718 Jul 2017 This is the first in a series of short critical looks at books of literary criticism. Yes, a writer writing about writers who write about writers! I composed these for…
Author post True and False Test 16 Jul 201717 Jul 2017 Marianne Moore once wrote that poetry consisted in "imaginary gardens with real toads in them," which is perhaps as good a definition as any. I'd say it applies to fiction…
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