After reading A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and the last part of On the Road. That sense that here I am touching more than myself, but, fantastically, and with dumb luck, I have stumbled toward the top of a ravine […]
The Bone and the Flower: New Frontiers of Literature or Sexual Fantasy?
Guernica, which is one of the best online culture magazines out there today, just posted their November 1 edition, and it’s quite a compendium of stories, interviews, essays, art, and poetry. They offer a pretty insightful interview with Junot Diaz […]
Implosions of America Short Story About to Self-Destruct
Sometime this evening, I will be pulling the plug on my post of the title story to my new collection, Implosions of America. Read it now, save it, or print it out. And remember that November 16 is the release […]
Goodreads GiveAway: Signed Copy of Beyond the Will of God
If you’re a Goodreads member, you should enter my special GiveAway offer of an autographed paperback edition of Beyond the Will of God. The GiveAway contest is running from October 12 thru October 23. This is a worldwide competition. As […]
The Sins of Multi-Media: Gliding the Electric Book
I am in the process of developing a musical edition of my novel Beyond the Will of God. Like many of my stories, this psychedelic mystery is at least partially about music. References to everything from bootleg Grateful Dead songs […]
When I Noticed We Stopped Thinking: Over Sangria and Marinated Meat
It was a warm weekend evening in September of 1985. We sat in our small urban backyard, pink clouds over-head, starting on a second pitcher of Sangria after a shish-ka-bob and salad dinner. I was more or less happy. I’d […]