Literary writers love short stories. The general public, we notice, does not. We are told to write novels, or at…
Art as $$$$$$$$
Felix Salmon has an interview and piece today on a couple of art buyers/sellers that I found fascinating and sad.…
Read Brian Carr! Screw with Google! Win a Book! Dark Sky!
Things! Stuff! Words! These actually aren’t just random crazy words I’m using to fill space on a web page, believe…
The Dream of Self-Reliance: The Bee-Loud Glade, by Steve Himmer
As the first chapter of Steve Himmer’s new novel, The Bee-Loud Glade, dissolves into the second, the reader quickly realizes…
The Civil War and a Legacy of Slavery: Perception and Relativism and Political Opportunism
This week marks the beginning of the American Civil War Sesquicentennial, so Ken Burns was on the news this morning…
Conversations and Connections in DC: Ten Reasons You Should be There.
And no, not just because I’m going to be there. (Though I would be very pleased to see you, of…
I’ll Leave My Heart at the Last Bookstore
This article in the Millions got me thinking about not just Borders’ closing stores all over the country, but Barnes…
You Can Judge This Book by Its Cover: Trees of the Twentieth Century by Stephen Sturgeon
I confess: I bought Stephen Sturgeon’s debut poetry collection, Trees of the Twentieth Century, published by Dark Sky Press –…
Read Some Irish Writers Today, Won’t You?
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! While I hate the fratty atmosphere of the holiday here in the States, and will not…
A Great New Reading Series. A Little Self-Promotion. But Only Because the Lineup is So Good.
For those of you in the Beltway area, or who’d love to take a trip to visit us: Three Tents…