Archive for July, 2011
A little while ago, Craig over at the book review site Somebody Dies asked me to do a little guest blogging. I wrote a bit about setting’s place in THE COMMITTEE, which he posted on his site this morning. It’s a great little site for lovers of crime novels, with a bunch of other bits [...]
John Kennedy Toole’s Confederacy of Dunces does its best to capture the atmosphere of New Orleans through a handful of larger than life zany characters. These characters continually run into each other creating the affect that the city itself consists of only about twenty or so people, each of which has their own quirks and [...]
After having a recent conversation about Tom Stoppard, I decided to read his 1962 play THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND. It’s a play I first saw in high school and enjoyed but never revisited. I was surprised by a couple of things. I enjoyed it despite the lack of any real character development; it is a [...]
I mentioned a bit ago that I had put the last book I wrote, THE COMMITTEE, up for sale on Amazon’s Kindle platform to understand what authors’ experiences have been. I was surprised at the ease of the process and, once the book is available, how quickly changes can be made. The experience has given [...]
I recently read David Markson’s THIS IS NOT A NOVEL and am still digesting it. It is a piece of experimental fiction and it a real page turner, which I found remarkable given it’s format. The story, and I call it a story because there is a trajectory; the reader at the end is in [...]
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