Author post… Musings on Proust, Part 8 27 Dec 202027 Dec 2020 If only Proust were not so parsimonious with his comic writing! Just laughed through a short section in the salon scene of "Le coté de Guermantes," book II, with Mme.…
Author post… Musings on Proust, Part Seven 12 Sep 2020 Hmm...the next book I called in to my library has not arrived yet, leaving me with only Proust for a day or two. While I have to admit that he…
Announcement… “Photographers” a Finalist 4 Sep 2020 My short story, "Photographers," is now a finalist in Short Édition's "America: Color It In" competition, and it could use a few reader votes. So how about you head on…
Announcement… Reading & Interview, via Rock and a Hard Place magazine 3 Aug 20203 Aug 2020 Rock and a Hard Place magazine has just released a podcast wherein I read "The Parking Lot," featured in issue three, and am then subjected to a grilling by the…
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… 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…
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…
Author post… Musings on Proust, Part 4 15 Apr 202016 Apr 2020 Having finished not with A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs as I had at first vainly imagined, but only Part 1 of Tome 2, I prepare to plunge into…
Author post Musings on Proust, part 3 7 Apr 2020 I am halfway through A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs, and here Proust meanders onward, ever onward...except when he goes left, or right, or back for a while, or…
