Posted in writing, tagged shameless self promotion, the writing life on 21 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
Click on the “Other Writing” tab at the top of the page and you’ll find a list of all my published short stories, poems, articles, and reviews. Also links to my previous blogs. I put this together yesterday. It was strange going through my files looking for all these items. Many many pieces I have [...]
Posted in contest, tagged cool stuff, give away, shameless self promotion on 14 February 2008 | 8 Comments »
This article by Douglas Goetsch in The American Scholar from last year is a marvelous piece about a group of high school kids who learned how to write poetry then set up a stand where they wrote poems on demand and on the spot for anyone who asked. It’s about the most inspiring thing I’ve [...]
Posted in writing, tagged shameless self promotion, the writing life on 10 February 2008 | 2 Comments »
When I was putting the finishing touches on my novel Terrastina and Mazolli I got a call from Nenad Dragicevic, the eminent European journalist and fabulist who I have admired for many years. He had somehow obtained a bootleg copy of T & M and enjoyed it so much that he wanted to talk to [...]
Posted in writing, tagged shameless self promotion on 29 January 2008 | No Comments »
I have always been interested in odd literary forms. Show me a short story in the form of an index to a non-existent book, and I will be deliriously happy. Or an entire novel that does not use the letter “e.” Or how about a book written in a completely made up language that neither [...]
