After reading Half-Blood Prince, I was wondering if the word “Horcrux” had any previous etymology, and looked it up on Wikipedia.
Only to discover that it really doesn’t… but that amazingly, less than 24 hours after the release of the new Harry Potter book, there’s a whole entry on the term on Wikipedia. Yet another very […]

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Another UNCG MFA alum, Kelly Link, is connected to all the cool kids. At least, the ones who I think are cool.
And she’s even cool enough to make her book Stranger Things Happen into a Creative Commons licensed product…
Boing Boing: Kelly Link’s gorgeous short story collection now a CC download

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Steve Almond is a guy I knew in my MFA Program. He’s (I think) the single most published writer from our little graduating class of ten or so people. Like, he’s an actual writer, making a living as a writer (and teaching).
Anyway, this interview he did with pre-teen-ish girl band Smoosh is fun: The […]

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My daughter and I listened to Hitchhiker’s Guide and some of Restaurant, read by Douglas Adams, on our car trip this week. It made me think a lot about who this guy was and what genius he had at explaining perspective, relative meaning, etc.
In the current climate of “intelligent design” claptrap, I thought this a […]

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Evidently the two book reviews I’ve written for Boxes and Arrows have been rated as “Good” here:
EServer TC Library: Authors: Hinton, Andrew
I never got reviews before!
Even though, really, these are reviews of reviews … which is kind of meta-ish. Fitting, I suppose.

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JonathanStrange.com
I finished listening to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell today. I’d gotten the audio book from Audible.com for listening on my trips to NC and couldn’t wait til my drive to finish it. It was, um, about 30 hours of listening. The narrator was terrific, by the way.
It was a very good […]

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What exactly is the Ides of March??

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The Believer is a cool magazine, and this is a fun interview… well if you’re entertained by philosophy chatter.
It kinda made me feel like I was in college again.
And I agree… screw Descartes’ “cogito”!!
The Believer - Interview With Marjorie Grene

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gladwell dot com / Article Archive
Malcolm Gladwell writes some of the coolest stuff I read. I think I feel that way because his obsessions seem to be so much like my own. Except he actually goes out and finds stuff to write about, while I gladly sit back and benefit from his labors.
Anyway, I […]

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moleskinerie
This is Moleskinerie, a blog dedicated to the proposition that not all notebooks are created equal. Its impeccable provenance notwithstanding this site will talk more about the places and adventures, life’s little dramas and other forgettable events that otherwise would have been lost were it not scrawled between the pages of these little black books.

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Imagine my surprise when I heard Bob Edwards on NPR’s Morning Edition today interviewing one of my writing mentors from 10 years ago, Sena Jeter Naslund. NPR : ‘Four Spirits’
She’s a terrific person, and a fine writer, and has several other impressive popular but complex books to her name as well as this new one. […]

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The horror writer Poppy Z. Brite keeps a journal online… and she finally went apeshit at fans who keep begging her to revisit old ground. She posted this two-paragraph “sequel” to her book Lost Souls: docbrite: OK, OK …
If you’ve read any of the book, it’s funny. Either way though it’s funny. I think so […]

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