- Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it. Cormac McCarthy
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The Fall, at New Dead Families
… His flesh hung in folds over his eyes, one of which had a sideways cast to it. His wife, Una, pushed into the center of the pass window behind the bar. Her face red as rubber, a boiling ball … Continue reading
Another first
Twenty years to the day after getting my first chunk of change for a piece of non-fiction (an article for the San Diego Herald-Tribune bizarrely titled, Home is Where the Art Is!), I just got my first check for a … Continue reading
Moving Right Along
Last couple of weeks of teaching and I have never been so glad to see the end of semester. From having to be front and center in class two hours after getting off the plane from LA, to getting sick, … Continue reading
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A month of firsts
It has been a month of firsts in a year of firsts. Last week, I was interviewed for the first time ever, an out-of-body experience if there ever was one, so watch this space; I sent off my first collection … Continue reading
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Fantasy Magazine July 1
Union Falls finds a home AND I answer some tough question in the July author spotlight. Awesome!
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Check this out.
http://www.doghornpublishing.com/polluto.html Absolutely awesome stuff here.
Just got a crash course in the publishing industry….
Found out the hard way
a) what First World Rights mean
b) how cool it is to have the best agent in the world
c) how cool it is to have the best colleagues—fuck, friends— in the world
d) how cool it is to have understanding editors at top drawer publications
e) how uncool it is not to know what’s going on if you want to make it in this business. Continue reading
Hamlet, I wish I knew you….
I am teaching Hamlet. This is a first for me, and it has given me a chance not only to revisit the play, but also Almereyda’s messy, masterful adaptation (2000); and one summer in my own life when the time felt most terribly out of joint.
Read more at The Nervous Breakdown. Continue reading
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