Literary Talismans Literature as we tend to conceive of it exists in the realm of the mind, represented by little markings that are...

Dialogue on Freedom of Expression at PEN World Voices Festival Salmon Rushdie sat down with his friend and colleague Timothy Garton Ash...

Note: I’m part of a small writing guild called Scrawl. This is an excerpt from an issue of the Scrawl newsletter. For various reasons,...

I decided to write a quick blog entry after reading an article in The Millions by Elizabeth Minkel entitled, "Can #TwitterFiction...

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

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

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

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

As you may have heard, a little freak weather event called Hurricane "Superstorm" Sandy ripped through the area recently doing its best...

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....

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...

Quartered Onionskin Paper & My Own Blue Notebooks There’s an episode fairly late in Kafka’s life, September 1917 to April 1918, when his...

The Physical Writing Process: James Joyce & Jorge Luis Borges - Writing With Eye Trouble I have the impression that the most iconic...

Destroy the Internet In a recent post I wrote, “I tend to type my novels directly into GoogleDocs so that they are constantly backed up...

Fountain Pen and Malfunctioning Typewriter Neal Stephenson started out writing on a typewriter, but when he began work on The Baroque...

The Cyberpunk Future was Written on Hemingway’s Typewriter In my abandoned, unfinished novel RPGs Aren’t Censored, a character says, “The...

Whenever I encounter tales of the way writers physically sit down to write one of their books, I’m always fascinated. I like to imagine...

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...

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...