I woke up at 2:34 AM (yes, I looked at the clock). Someone was shouting. What was it? A party? I couldn’t tell at first. I gradually recognized the cadence of some kind of cheer, a la ‘Hip hip hooray,’ or some other inane B.S. Then I heard British accents. (Maybe their football team had …
My newest Military Spouse blog post is up: Warning: This Post Contains Baby Poop I try to keep my baby poop stories to a minimum. Even though I, being the father of a 5-month-old son, find the subject continuously hilarious, I realize other people may actually find it disgusting. That said, I cant resist telling …
I found this collection about writers’ rooms a while back and for some reason didn’t post it. It’s a great collection of photos and descriptions of the places where writers write. Most are UK authors, but there are a few Americans present. My favorites are JG Ballard’s and Martin Amis’s. I also liked Geoff Dyer’s. …
My new post, Being Neighborly, is up at
This morning, I bounced over to Metacritic an aggregator of film, music, game, TV, and book reviews to take a look at their composite review of James Frey’s new book Bright Shiny Morning. Except what I found was this message: *Note: Metacritic’s regular coverage of Books has concluded with the final Harry Potter …
I’ve published two new posts at the Military Spouse blog. Whether they were wise to have done so or not, they’ve upgraded my status from ‘contributor’ to ‘author,’ so now I can publish direct to the blog without having to wait for approval. [Cue evil laughter]
I put down The Comfort of Strangers last night, reluctantly, at about midnight. I only had twenty-five pages left, but I was exhausted. So this morning, before getting out of bed, before coffee, I finished it. This is a short, mean little book. It’s less than 130 pages long, so many readers could polish it …
I’ve been in one of my fiction slumps in 2008. Maybe it’s because a lot of my reading time has been usurped by parenting time, but it’s also more than that. For one thing, I spend a lot more time online than I used to. The proliferation of blogs and the movement of print content …
This is one of the best shorts I’ve seen in a long time.
