The American Writers' Museum's First Exhibit Features the legendary scroll manuscript of Kerouac's classic American novel. I first read O...

I originally posted this on Twitter, but if you weren't following along live, I thought it'd be easier to read it all listed out from beg...

Some reflections on magical realism via Nikolai Gogol It would be easy to brush aside the absurd impossibilities of Nikolai Gogol’s “The ...

How much does the character of the author affect the work? Death and a Dictionary I recently read Simon Winchester’s The Professor and th...

Imagine the long hours spent crafting the perfect novel - revising each sentence to perfection, fleshing out each character, and tying th...

Reincarnations on Twitter A couple of weeks ago, I received a notification on my phone that I had been followed by "Modern Kierkegaard" o...

I can use a poem to sneak in.” "Forbidden Welcome" - a short story of poets, philosophers, and a totalitarian government with a robot - h...

This blog may not have been updated recently, but I wrote a post for Drunken Boat's blog the other day, which I thought I'd share here. I...

George R. R. Martin, author of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, made an appearance at the Barnes & Noble in New York City's Union Squar...

in a Windowsill Garden I am honored to have my work included in On A Narrow Windowsill: Fiction & Poetry Folded Onto Twitter alongside 42...

and Hatred of Fellow Man: Ezra Pound's Pisan Cantos I love the poetry of Ezra Pound, but it is unfortunate that he cast the tainted shadow...

and "To Live a Life That is Not My Own" by Suany Cañarte It's been a big publishing week for the author Suany Cañarte. Finally, some of h...