Category Archives: books
VII
Athenae says “writing is only real on the first draft.” So here you go. === For the second time this year, and only the third time in my life, I am holding in my hands a book with my writing in it. Yes, an actual book. Not a blog entry, not an online journal, not [...]
run-on sentences, kept warm by
OK, so I really didn’t expect anybody to comment. That was all just padding to make my “hey, look what I noticed!” thoughts fill out to be long enough for a blog entry. Y’all should read the story, though. And Catch-22. And Kevin Wilson’s short story collection Tunneling to the Center of the Earth, which [...]
Colbert needs an ass-kicking
I realize it’s just a sketch, but Colbert just ripped “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” out of a copy of Salinger’s Nine Stories. I flinched like I’d just seen a snuff film. You do NOT fuck with “Bananafish”. (OK, I’m trying to come out of my hole here, cut me some slack.)
A chat with Chin Music Press
Anthem Magazine has published a short but interesting interview with Bruce Rutledge and Craig Mod of Chin Music Press. They talk about their online projects and some future publishing works, including a second edition of Do You Know What It Means. (Hey Bruce, does that mean I get another check?) This is also a heads-up, [...]
Sandrine
I’ve been having trouble with William Gibson’s latest one for weeks, only managing a couple of pages a night before falling asleep and not being able to keep track of all the intertwined plots and the dozen or so key characters. I finally gave up and grabbed the next thing on my pile, one I’d [...]
Breach of Faith
I just finished reading Jed Horne’s Breach of Faith. This is probably the first overall look at Katrina that I’ve read, other than maybe Cooper & Bloch’s Disaster: Hurricane Katrina and the Failure of Homeland Security (which was primarily focused on the federal government’s response to the disaster so is not really so general). Breach [...]
DYK Reading next week
For all you locals, another reading and book signing for Chin Music Press’s Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? will take place next Wednesday, January 24, at the Jefferson Parish Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Avenue in Metairie. I’ll be reading from my story, “I Was A Teenage Float Grunt”, and other [...]
The boy is a cynic
Watching Goblet of Fire. Dad: “So every year, the whole school thinks that Harry is a cheat and a liar, and by the end of the year it always turns out that he’s telling the truth and is battling Voldemort. Why don’t they ever learn?” Liam: “I don’t know. J.K. Rowling can’t think of anything [...]
An Afternoon With Authors
If you happen to be watching TV right now, switch over to CSPAN2. They’re rebroadcasting this afternoon’s Press Club of New Orleans event, “An Afternoon With Authors”. Many post-Katrina book authors are on-hand, including some from Chin Music Press’s Do You Know What It Means anthology. Sadly, I had to turn down a panel invitation [...]
A Scanner Darkly
I just saw a preview for A Scanner Darkly on Comedy Central, and one of the review tags said “Linklater’s funniest film in years!” I beg your pardon? It’s been years since I read the book, and yeah, all of Dick’s stories have a sort of wry cynical humor to them, but they’re more edgy [...]
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