BoD: On Celtic Tides
In sharp contrast to the coke-snorting, chick-grabbing, crowd-rocking antics of the music books I’ve recently been re-reading, On Celtic Tides: One Man’s Journey Around Ireland by Sea Kayak by Chris Duff provides a nice slow meditative pace. Duff’s twelve hundred-mile circumnavigation of the Emerald Isle provides both thrilling moments of adventure in the sea and…
continue readingUnder Construction
As you undoubtedly noticed this week, we were down for a few days. I suppose that server crashes are a fact of life when you run a website that generates no revenue and is really just a hobby-turned-obsession. But, in an effort to make sure something doesn’t happen again, we’re switching servers this weekend. So…
continue readingInterview: Vicki Hendricks, Author
Many noir or crime novels start right off with the dastardly deed. Frequently, there’s a dead body, or a strategy for robbing a bank, within the first twenty pages. Vicki Hendricks, however, manages to draw the reader in long before there’s ever any criminal activity. The author of Miami Purity, Iguana Love, Voluntary Madness, and…
continue readingAward Nominations for Jones
You might remember our great interview with Stephen Graham Jones and also my recent book review of his newest collection, Bleed into Me. Well, seems I’m not alone in my admiration of this collection. I heard from a pretty reliable source that the collection has been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner award. I’m trying to get…
continue readingThe Game Enters NYT Bestseller List
Neil Strauss’ The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists entered the New York Times bestseller list this weekend. It’s a riot. Keep your eyes open for the Slushpile interview with Strauss which I hope to have posted this week.
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