Christopher Barzak

Month: June 2009

  • Stonewall at 40

    Rick Bowes writes a guest blog over at Matt Cheney’s blog The Mumpsimus, on Stonewall forty years later.  Read it.  It’s not only good, it’s a great perspective.

  • “Political Shifts on Gay Rights Lag Behind Culture”

    Duh!

  • C’est Moi

    I rarely post pics like I did all the time in Japan, since it was like, you know, another country and all that.  But my friend Jan took a pic of me tonight at a board meeting for the Oakland Center for the Arts, and I didn’t realize it. I always like the candid photos…

  • Charlie Brooker on the American News Media. Funny

    Seriously funny, seriously pathetic, seriously.  Thanks to my friend James in Manchester for sending me this.

  • One resolution accomplished

    Back around New Year’s, I made one writerly resolution.  From that blog post: “One of my goals for the year is to write something joyful instead of melancholy, extroverted instead of introverted, playful instead of serious.  I suspect I will have to change some of the ways I perceive things to do so.  But that…

  • Out of this furnace

    I’ve been reading a novel called “Out of this Furnace” for one of my summer courses.  It’s by Thomas Bell, an author from Braddock, Pennsylvania who grew up in a steel mill family.  The novel is semi-autobiographical, following three generations of a Slovak immigrant family from the turn of the century through the thirties.  The…

  • Commentary or Fan Fic?

    Apparently there’s this book that’s been self-published in England and due to be published in the U.S. that is a “sequel” to Catcher in the Rye, making use of many of Salinger’s original characters, aged appropriately.  The author of the book says it’s not a sequel, and that, “The book explores the famously reclusive Salinger’s efforts…

  • Wherefore art thou, Juliet

    Today we bring you an awesome interview with the editor of my first two books, Juliet Ulman.  Okay, so “we” don’t bring it to you, Jeff Vandermeer does, over at Amazon.com’s blog, Omnivoracious.  Here’s a connecting pass to it.  And if you like reading Juliet’s really smart and insightful perspective on editing, publishing, and the…

  • The Odds

    Looking for a good suspense/mystery novel for the summer?  You should check out Kathleen George‘s newest novel, The Odds.               I have to make a qualification on this recommendation.  I haven’t read the book yet.  I know Kathleen as a mentor in the MFA program at Chatham University, and…

  • Interfictions 2: Your Name Here

    I had to steal this entire post from Gavin Grant, because it’s not only all the information those of you who may read this may need, but funny.  If anyone out there is so inclined to aid in the cause of non-profit bookmaking, here’s your chance: Interfictions 2: Your Name Here Well, maybe more like Your…