More Lit Travel News
CNN must have just hired a Literature PhD candidate to bolster their travel coverage. Earlier this week, they featured articles on traveling to Robert E. Howard’s Cross Plains, TX and Ernest Hemingway’s Ketchum, ID. Today, CNN’s fellow travelers turn their attention to Walt Whitman’s Camden, NY. “A tour offered this summer called ‘Walt Whitman & His Invincible City’ celebrates…
continue readingInterview: Stephen Graham Jones, Author
The movies get it all wrong. You don’t just spew out some Latin, crank up Judas Priest, draw a pentagram on your notebook during study hall, and summon the devil. As serious necromancers know, conjuring a demon is a grim business, full of risk and threat. And it’s far from being an exact science. The denziens of the netherworld…
continue readingWalsh Takes Over Powell’s Blog
I intended to mention earlier in the week that Pat Walsh, former editor at MacAdam/Cage and author of the best damn book on getting published period, is the guest blogger at Powell’s. Walsh’s most recent book is How to Win the World Series of Poker (Or Not) but he put down the playing cards and…
continue readingMy Promise to You: I Respect Your Intelligence
Ed got the drop on me. I’m busted. He wilted under the harsh spotlights, billy clubs, and genitally-placed electrodes of John Freeman’s Amazon link expose and he ratted us all out. Now, the grifters of the Lit Blog Cartel are all on the run, hiding in the shadows and safe houses of the book world. Trust me, the…
continue readingYarbrough Signs at Square Books
Steve Yarbrough, author of The Oxygen Man, Mississippi History: Stories, and others returns to Square Books in Oxford, MS today to sign his new novel. The End of California focuses on Pete Barrington, a successful physician who flees California and returns to the small Delta town where he grew up. Whatever the plot, you…
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