‘This Kind of Man’ Virtual Launch with Jenna Blum
How do I love Jenna Blum? Let me count the ways... She's a brilliant writer, full-stop -- itself a ceaseless source of joy and inspiration (for me, for any author).…
How do I love Jenna Blum? Let me count the ways... She's a brilliant writer, full-stop -- itself a ceaseless source of joy and inspiration (for me, for any author).…
Now’s the Time: Until We See the Problem Clearly and Realize It’s Us, Why Should We Expect Anything to Change? “Now’s the Time,” from my forthcoming collection This Kind of Man,…
"She didn’t understand how men could do those things. What things? he asked, and she said, The things men do. Then he nodded. Oh, he said, those things." —Tim O’Brien, The…
Kicking off '23 in Todos Santos From 1455’s Movable Type, Issue 15 (peruse the complete archives, here): The State of the Art, right now, is a sum total of every individual…
Lots of well-deserved buzz surrounding this timely and important story by Dave Sheinin (read via the Washington Post here and more from the series here and here). This entire triumph…
Martin Amis poses for a photographer June 12, 2000 at a book signing at the Beverly Hills Library in Beverly Hills, CA. (by Frederick M. Brown/Online USA) Style is not…
Martin Amis was not merely the supreme literary stylist of his generation, his non-fiction was, arguably (unbelievably) possibly even better than his fiction. An absolute master, and incomparable in every…
From 1455’s Movable Type, Issue 13 (peruse the complete archives, here). So, what’s next? It’s possible this endeavor could continue to evolve and grow in the right ways, or we might…
Big thanks to Flash Fiction Magazine for publishing "In My Cups," a short, sad piece that serves as a companion piece of sorts to yesterday's poem. In My Cups When…
Fifty. Five-0. Fiddy. Half-Century. Five Decades. Old. Actually, one thing I can declare with the certainty of a man undeniably ensconced in middle-age is that, in many significant ways, I…