There’s a lot of talk about Great American Writers these days. Jonathan Franzen got branded with a version of that moniker (Great American Novelist) a number of years ago when he published The Corrections (and then made the Oprah Follies). […]
Trying to Care: A Story Collection
Trying to Care, a collection of six short stories about love, family, confusion, parenting and mid-life romance, has just been published at Amazon.com’s Kindle Book Store. These stories are not intended to provide answers to the reader. They are intended […]
Happy Birthday David Foster Wallace
Today, February 21, 2012, would have been David Foster Wallace’s 50th birthday. We could have started thinking of him as a gray beard in the American literary canon. Instead, he will be forever young (see my 2008 farewell to him […]
Her Miniature: A Short Story
A creepy, rather sordid, somewhat kinky story, HER MINIATURE, will be posted at Kindle Select by tomorrow morning. Julia Davenport has a pretty strong effect on people — especially men. These stories have been influenced by the struggles so many […]
What Goes Inside
I just published my first offering at Amazon’s Kindle site. It’s just a short story, but it’s a start. If you’re interested, go check it out here. The cover I posted last night sucked. Sorry. I posted a new one […]
The Novel at Play
Go to Talking Writing to read my essay on the implications of Chad Harbach’s novel, The Art of Fielding — both to Harbach himself and to the literary world of 2012 (and beyond). If you’re missing baseball or you feel […]
Orphandom
In the summer of 2002, my wife and I took our two youngest sons to Indiana to do some detective work. The object? To find out anything we could about the woman who gave birth to me. We had no idea […]
No Biking in the House Without a Helmet
Read my review of Melissa Faye Greene’s ultimate book about adoption and parenting in general… Once that last child begins to drive, most of us realize our capacity to parent is fading. We get a few years of empty-nest freedom […]
