Author post When Clichés Come to Life 20 Mar 202020 Mar 2020 Clichés are much derided in writing circles, and rightly so: they are a lazy way to express the character of a situation, and usually they have been heard so often…
book review Mini-Review: Yiyun Li’s “Where Reasons End” 18 Dec 2019 I just finished Yiyun Li's Where Reasons End, which might be called a conceptual novel, an experimental novel, perhaps an experimental memoir, or perhaps just a heart-wrenching and intellectually-challenging good…
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…
Announcement… Speech and Scribbles 24 Aug 201725 Aug 2017 No one is really sure yet where language comes from, whether it originates in the brain, or somewhere beyond, in the dim electric dancings of the universe. Surely if we…
Author post Say What You Mean 28 Jun 201730 Jun 2017 Since I grew up with an engineer, I am practiced in the dark art of taking things literally. This held me back in the early days of my writing; since…
Author post Official First Post 21 Jun 201724 Jun 2017 I suppose that it's now incumbent upon me to scribe the obligatory First Post, introducing myself to the alleged visitors of this website. I have been blogging pretty much since…
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