A friend recently sent me a link to a very moving first-hand remembrance of Jeff Buckley called “Be Your Husband” from over at PurpleClover.com. The piece stayed with me all day until I recalled an alternative prologue to my novel Beyond […]
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 […]
Pulp fiction in the digital age | China Daily
The article (link below) is a bit mind-blowing when you read the scale of things in China. It starts out reporting the demise of a digital author who worked himself to, well, death… Pulp fiction in the digital age|Society|chinadaily.com.cn. There […]
When Novels Become Assassins: The Problem with Writing on the Edge
A version of this essay was adapted for The Huffington Post. Read that here. I nearly died just after completing the first draft of a novel called Beautiful Morning Blues. The story I came up with is unnerving, possibly amoral, anarchic, […]
An Unexpected Short Book Review and Appreciation
The review below tells the story as well as I ever could here in an intro. Let me just say that Roger Raufer was one of the great teachers in my life when I was learning the ropes in the […]
Divergent Paths: The Most Influential People I Ever Met
I spent the first 30 years of my adult life as a consultant in the world of energy and the environment. I’ve done energy and solid waste audits of over 600 institutional and corporate buildings throughout the United States. During […]
More on the Price of Books in America: addendum to a Talking Writing op-ed
The Apple vs. Department of Justice anti-trust, book pricing case came to an end this past week. It offered a rare and important glimpse of the private nether regions of both the publishing world and the new corporate media industry […]
The Loneliness of the Self-Published Author
I just found a short Huffington Post ditty attached to a video rant by media phenom John Green sort of seeming to trash the idea of self-publishing and going it alone as an author. The link to it is: John […]
