The world of American fiction is a sad thing these days. On the one hand, you have the genre boys and girls, often writing with surprising skill, but receiving little in the way of serious attention from the serious lit crowd. On the other, you have those who toil in the vineyards of academe, writing Continue Reading

As I may have mentioned, I'm in the process of writing a great big book proposal for what, I guess, will be a great big book. Without giving too much away, there are aspects of this book which lend themselves to the kind of augmentation that electronic devices make possible, not only as an ebook Continue Reading

As those of you who follow my other blog know, for the past five weeks I've been careening around North America. Needless to say, this meant some ingenuity when packing, especially if I were going to acquire anything over there, as I inevitably do. I was going to hit two distinct climate zones, for one Continue Reading