You made it!
First,
try to be something, anything, else.
A movie star/astronaut.
A movie star missionary.
A movie star/kindergarten teacher.
President of the World.
Fail miserably.
—Lorrie Moore, “How to Become a Writer”
New review on Bookslut
Check out my review of Mr g, the new novel by Alan Lightman (author of Einstein’s Dreams, one of my all-time favorites), on Bookslut.
Long Short Story in Euphony
Hi!
It’s summertime; in Seattle, that means it’s hot every other day, and every other day you walk out of the house wearing not enough clothes and eventually you get very sick.
In other news, “Diners,” a long short story I spent a very long time on is in the most recent issue of the University of Chicago’s Euphony Journal. You can download a PDF of the issue here. I owe a debt of gratitude to Jonathan Goldstein for his hilarious and fantastically written book Lenny Bruce is Dead, which influenced this story a great deal.
Earlier this year, Euphony published another short story, “I Thought I Was Going to Die,” as an online exclusive; you can read that here.
Bookslut Review and Interview
Check out my interview with Peter Mountford here and my review of his awesome debut novel, A Young Man’s Guide to Late Capitalism, here.
I love Bookslut, and I’m excited to be writing for them. I’m excited to even be listed on the Contributors page.
News
I have signed with an agent! That means that, conceivably, in the not-so-distant future, you all will be reading Monsters, having purchased it from a reputable place like Amazon or your local favorite bookstore. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. For now, I have an agent.
Beginning
Welcome. Have a look around. Especially look at the links above, since that’s kind of all that’s going on, for the moment.
