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…
Author post… The Price of a Burger 8 May 20188 May 2018 Yes, it's ironic that I've titled a story thus, considering that I've been a vegetarian for fifty years, but...it's not about me. This is a rewrite of one chapter…
Author post To Lie for Truth’s Sake: the Novelist’s Conundrum 20 Apr 201820 Apr 2018 The job of a fiction writer is to lie. Still, if it were only to lie, you could dedicate yourself to advertising or politics instead, and accept troubled sleep as…
Author post… Quickie Book Review: Salman Rushdie’s “Fury” 24 Mar 201824 Mar 2018 Just finished Salman Rushdie's Fury. This was my first taste of Rushdie, and it disappointed me. The protagonist is the usual brilliant academic undergoing a midlife crisis. (True, he is…
Author post River of Night 19 Mar 201819 Mar 2018 darkness surges from the east slow silent inexorable, while day grows timid and flows over the western horizon, diluting a glimmering sea — or so we say we who see the universe…
Author post… Recursions, Part 10: “The Dawn Watch,” by Maya Jasanoff 4 Mar 20184 Mar 2018 This is the tenth 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…
Announcement… Teaser: “My Turn to Die” 28 Feb 201828 Feb 2018 I have finished the third draft of my next novel, titled My Turn to Die, and am grinding through the process of offering to agents while deciding whether I'd really…
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