I think it’s safe to say that as a kid who grew up in the ’60s and ’70s I’ve never found much value in canned or predictable attempts at storytelling. “Notes on the Golden Country” is all about America and somewhat rebellious in its plot and theme (is being rebellious an American trait?).
It’s been a long time rolling along, but Sound Effect Infinity is finally ready for reading in full through most any meaningful online book outlet out there.
All good dads in today’s world understand that a very human relationship with their children begins as soon as they are born.
Once something is published, it mostly belongs to the reader (and, to a certain extent, the publisher).
I’m in the middle of writing a novel about 21st century racial identity, among other things. Also, pioneering, mixed race farming communities in the 19th century Midwest, and the future Utopia that we are all not going to know we’re […]
I already feel like a jerk. The only thing that is going to keep me from being selfish and single-minded here in 2024 is if I need surgery or get diagnosed with cancer or just don’t wake up some morning. […]
Leave it to poets to knock over all the mental obstacles to attempts at defining what a person is before the external world really goes to work on them.
A version of this essay was published in the Illumination publication on Medium several weeks ago. These days, I wish as hard as I can for good things that are considered impossible to happen, like there actually being a Santa […]
Is the Book World Done with Science Fiction?
What I do want to suggest, though, is that science fiction as a category needs to be a protected realm. So does fantasy.
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