"The Largesse Of The Sea Maiden"!
Only 3 more days! Denis Johnson's The Largesse Of The Sea Maiden comes out Tuesday, and my pre-order should arrive then. His story...
Loving the book too: 'Call Me By Your Name'
Well I'm only on p. 13, but I generally know right away when I fall for a book, and this had me from page 1. It's also really interesting...
Back into the writing groove (on gay soldiers)
First time in weeks I woke up dreaming copy.* It wasn't even directly for this book, but close, so I grabbed my phone and recorded it....
I signed 'Columbine' copies around Chicago
I'm visiting my family for Christmas, and signed several copies of Columbine at local bookstores around the Chicago suburbs the past few...
More on Huck Finn—on the Facebook response
So I posted here about giving up on Huck Finn, and also on my Facebook page. That drew a lot of heated reaction, by people who loved the...
Best Huck Finn sentence so far—inspiration for gay soldiers
and you see the mist curl up off of the water, and the east reddens up, and the river, and you make out a log cabin in the edge of the woods
Itching to write? Here's THE guidebook
I just pulled out my version of Janet Burroway's, Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft. Decades into my career, eight years after...
Lolita, astonishing
How did I think Vladimir Nabokov devoted 300 pages to just an old man craving a 12-year-old girl? I'm 130 pages into Lolita and no...
Lolita! 3rd time's the charm
"I then had the fantastic pleasure of creeping through that pitch-dark tunnel, where I lingered a little to listen to the singing in my
Columbine Teacher's Guide back online
BTW, if you are a teacher or know one, please spread the word about the guide. Links help! It's free, and I've gotten great feedback
