Note: The image to the right is not real. It is fake. It is not a dead parrot, but it is not a real parrot either. Reading and listening to the mainstream media, it has been suggested that this new president […]
My Year of Reading Slowly: Roberto Bolaño’s 2666
I finally finished Roberto Bolaño’s novel 2666 last month (912 pages in English; 1,136 in Spanish). It represents a year of reading for me (with some other stuff thrown in, but nothing I stayed with or finished). The beauty of […]
Why I Wrote a Novel by a Girl: When a Dude Figures Out the Power of Emotion in Literature
I just finished revising the second draft of my next novel, which means I now have Draft #3 to print out. I’m doing that as I write this post. The whole process started back in October of 2013. Draft #1 clocked […]
Sounds Like a Job for Supergirl: Empowered Girls and Women in the 21st Century
I kept getting goosebumps every time the promo pieces for the new Supergirl show came on TV in the first three weeks of October. The week before the show debuted I told my wife that I simply had to watch it. She gave me a funny […]
Summer 2015: Books I’ve Read and Books I’ve Been Working On
I want to share some thoughts on what I read this summer, just so you know what writers do with all that spare time they have. At the end of this essay I also report on some of the stuff […]
Divesting in Trustee Wussyness: College Campuses and Climate Change Action
This spring Swarthmore College’s students, alumni and faculty stood up to demand that the school’s Board of Managers (their trustees) divest funding in fossil fuel businesses and technologies. I reported on that here in “The State of the War on […]
The State of the War on Climate Change: Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way
Talking Writing magazine just posted an interview I did with climate activist and environmental journalist Bill McKibben called “We Don’t Require Leaders.” I urge you to go check it out. McKibben surprised me with some of his answers. The whole […]
“Writing Blue Highways”: My Interview with William Least Heat-Moon
Over at Talking Writing they just posted an interview I did with the great American travel writer and chronicler of deep culture, William Least Heat-Moon. I had a lot of fun researching and preparing for this Q&A session. I think Bill […]
Your Font Choice Says A Lot About Something
Special Note: This post was composed a week prior to the decision to overhaul the theme for this website. Thus, the font reference below, “Domine,” is now anachronistic and passé. The font family here, now, is Lora. Apologies for any […]
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