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Rootbound: a Novella

Robert Houseman believed he had left his past behind—util it showed up on his doorstep in the form of Carla…

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Journey through the Shadowlands: a Middle-Grade Fantasy Novel

Journey through the Shadowlands, published by Basil E. Bacorn Publishing, is a middle-grade fantasy novel with a social conscience, following…

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Family Ties: a Novel

Finders, Losers A lakeside cabin in the Sierra foothills, a canyon village divided between old coots and laid-back hippies, and…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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Cruel Graces

11 Jul 201730 Sep 2017

The grace of a cat is rooted in cruelty. Not just the cruelty of the kill itself, which, if you abstract it from the pain it imposes, is beautiful as…

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Stranger than Fiction

6 Jul 20176 Jul 2017

Sometimes, truth really is stranger than fiction, and you have to leave some of it out to make the generous lie of writing at all believable. A good example is…