Author post Reading Is a Gift, Not a Purchase 14 Oct 2018 This is a reprint of an article I originally posted in Sustainable City News early in 2016, though I edited it very lightly for Crow Tree. I shall not be…
Author post Reality Check 29 Sep 20187 Oct 2018 What is a "real" book anyway? I ask this in the context of the ongoing dispute over paper versus digital literature. Maybe people, myself included, casually refer to print editions…
Author post Literacy Lit 21 Sep 201822 Sep 2018 I work part-time as an Adult Literacy Coordinator at the Echo Park branch of the Los Angeles Public Library, and one of the programs I started is a "literacy book…
Author post… Recursions, Part 11: “Ulysses,” by James Joyce 10 Sep 201828 Sep 2018 This is the eleventh 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… The Tide 20 Aug 201820 Aug 2018 Another poem, because, well, writng poems is one thing humans do.... lazy ripples lap at tumbled rocks rising to the tidewrack of dead weeds then falling back, depleted and serene:…
Author post The Most Important Thing A Writer Can Do Is Write 7 Aug 2018 There is one indispensable step to writing, and that is that you must sit down and write. This is technically untrue, and was not such a hard and fast rule…
Author post… American Fugue: Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River” 30 Jul 20182 Aug 2018 Some scholarly-minded sorts have made a parlor game of trying to identify actual landmarks in Hemingway's masterful short story, "Big Two-Hearted River." They complain that the burnt town named as…
Author post Interview with the Author 25 Jun 2018 The first book I put together was a collection of essays, Our Own Day Here, which comprise explorations of urban life in all of its aspects, from the poetry of…
Author post Boat Channel 18 Jun 201818 Jun 2018 Just another poem, this one in blank verse, for a change from the usual.... This bit of trapped Pacific, trammeled here by silt and broken stone: to the white hulls…
Author post Odds and Ads 7 Jun 20188 Jun 2018 This is the way it is: if your book does not enjoy extensive publicity, it will not sell. This is not a hard and fast rule--miracles do happen through word…
