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2013…(The Merman Turns Again): My Undercover Soundtrack

I’ve got a guest post called “Sex, Drugs, Metaphysics, and Rock ‘n’ Roll” over at Roz Morris’s website My Memories of a Future Life. It’s a quick-read, but provides a tour of some of the recordings that influenced me as I worked […]

Not the Marriage Plot: On Men Reading Novels in the 21st Century

Here’s what I think about at some point of every day: What is going on in this world that would lead so many men far, far away from reading modern literary novels? I’ve written here at this blog and in […]

A Click Away: Where the Good Stuff Is

We go to people’s websites and blogs following a link from somewhere else. Usually we don’t so much read an article, post, or essay as we absorb it. I have to tell myself to slow down ten times a day […]

Read “Nirvana” – An Esquire short story by Adam Johnson

Rarely do I bump into a short story in a mainstream publication that knocks my socks off. The last time that happened was about twelve years ago when I read Anthony Doerr’s “The Hunter’s Wife” in The Atlantic (that was […]

Spilling Your Guts: Writing That Makes a Beautiful Mess

It took me at least a year of college to learn to live with my Midwestern sincerity. I went to a school on the West Coast full of super smart people. That was bad enough — being kind of average […]

Notes on the Heart of Darkness: Ex-Urban Wildernesses

When someone speaks knowingly of a heart of darkness somewhere, understand that they don’t realize this heart is only an opening or an entrance into something that is hard to understand. Inside a real heart of darkness there are dimensions. […]

PsyPress UK Literary Review: Beyond the Will of God

My psychedelic novel, Beyond the Will of God, was reviewed by the Psychedelic Press UK — a book review site that does exactly what you’d think it does. Here’s a snippet from the review: “Very few novels come across the review desk of […]

“The Ass Hole Club” : an excerpt from a novel-in-progress

This excerpt is getting a major facelift today. It will self-destruct into a few truncated sample paragraphs very soon, so read up now. Please let me know your thoughts in the comments section… He discovers two bananas, soft to the […]

Ralph Ellison and the Floating Self

No one is really sure, but March 1 was either Ralph Waldo Ellison’s 99th or 100th birthday. We have at least three copies of Invisible Man floating around our house. More than likely, if you ask, all three of my […]

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