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A question
I’ve been thinking a lot about blogs and online journals recently. To be honest, not in any consideration of what I’m doing with my own so much as just being very interested in them as a form or mode. I’m interested in knowing what other people think about them. What are they for? What are… Read more
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Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84
I’ll miss having him around. His books have meant a lot to me at various times in my life. He can make me laugh at suffering more easily than any other author I’ve read. New York Times article Really excellent audio interview at Bookworm Read more
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Trochu
Last week I got this really cool Czech anthology called “Trochu”. It’s edited by Martin Sust. Martin published a Czech translation of “The Language of Moths” in it, along with some other really really cool stories by the likes of Hal Duncan, Jeff Ford, Theodora Gossonova, Ellen Klagesova, Tim Pratt, Alan Deniro, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Paul Melko,… Read more
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Back to the grindstone
As Ferris Bueller once said, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” True, Ferris, true, though if you stop and look around for too long, you can also get behind on pretty much everything you need to be doing in order to pay bills… Read more
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Writing thoughts and questions
Do you have any thoughts on why writers can’t tell if their own writing is any good or not? I mean, I think there are probably some writers who do know (or believe) that their writing is good, and there are probably some writers who do know (or believe without any trouble) that their writing… Read more
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I Will Shout Youngstown
I have been officially interviewed at the “I Will Shout Youngstown” blog. If you haven’t checked out that weblog before, do take a look. Tons of really interesting entries there about Youngstown and issues related to community revitalization, a subject many American cities are faced with at the moment. I talk mostly about Youngstown in… Read more
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