The Gorge of Free Advance Copies
Lo, Book Expo America is upon us. So hoards of publishing professional will descend upon the Javits Center in New York to gorge upon free advance copies, swag, and other loot. There were a fair number of complaints about the attendance at last year’s convention since it was held in Washington, DC. But now that it’s…
continue readingPotential Short Story Idea of the Day
“A man clad only in underwear and a T-shirt wrestled a wild leopard to the floor and pinned it for 20 minutes after the cat leapt through a window of his home and hopped into bed with his sleeping family.” Reported by CNN.
continue readingMy So Called Punk
Check out some of my brief comments about My So-Called Punk: Green Day, Fall Out Boy, The Distillers, Bad Religion–How Neo-Punk Stage-Dived into the Mainstream on Beatrice today. It’s an expansive look at the punk scene and should fascinate any music fan. I had a great chat with author Matt Diehl the other night so…
continue readingThe Most Famous Character in American Literature?
Some time ago, I visited Louisville, KY to do some research for a novel. I stayed at the grand Seelbach Hotel. First opened in 1905, the Seelbach has hosted nine US presidents, gangster Al Capone, numerous Hollywood celebrities, and most relevant to us, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald frequently visited the hotel during his Army assignment…
continue readingJ.E. Pitts to Appear at Square Books
You might recall my interview with J.E. Pitts from a while back. Pitts is a painter, a poet, the editor of Vox, and the poetry editor for The Oxford American. And is first book, The Weather of Dreams, has recently been released. It’s been said of the collection that, “Step by step, the reader’s sense of…
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