Announcement… “The Finn Girl, or Woman” 1 Oct 202013 Oct 2020 My short story, "The Finn Girl, or Woman," has just appeared in the first volume of what hopes to be an annual collection, called Fiction Junkie. This is a new…
Announcement… “The Mechanical Dancer” 19 Apr 202019 Apr 2020 A new story of mine has just appeared in Potato Soup Journal. Available free to read online! Go to: "The Mechanical Dancer" Although this is a stand-alone story, it is…
book review Book Review: Anna Burns’s “Milkman” 28 Jan 201929 Jan 2019 Milkman, by Anna Burns This book shares some characteristics with Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet, which by chance I read just before picking Milkman up at the library: both explore themes…
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…
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