Roadtripping.
pictures here. words and pictures here. so tired I’m dizzy sitting still. must lie down. but you — how are you?
Category Archives: online
Snap judgments
Racial politics in Pittsburgh, from the MFA perspective. It’s like it’s the 70s. Or the 50s. Or maybe even the 30s. Jane Smiley on Jennifer Weiner’ Certain Girls. She condescends…
Under the weather (which is cold and wet)
Back in Pittsburgh, which is still in the grips of winter. I’m in the grips of the grippe, or some such virus coughed onto me on the transatlantic flight from…
To ultimately blog
Today’s LA Times runs my review of Ultimate Blogs: Masterworks from the Wide Web. The book, edited by Sarah Boxer, can be thought of as an anthology of great web…
Amazon breakthrough novelist award
If you’ve been thinking you might want to read some of those Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award entries but don’t know where to start, may I recommend The Stars Here Are…
No longer in NYC
If I were in LA tonight, I’d go to this panel — with Mark Sarvas and Veronique de Turenne, among others — at Skylight Books on the new NBCC recommended…
36 hours, 374 comments
That’s what you get when you’re a literary agent and you ask people to post the first page of their WIPs. A prize — bragging rights and the choice of…
A few bits of goodness
Go, Jessica! The Booknerd wins a sweet chunk of change for her business plan for a new independent bookstore in Brooklyn. Condalmo says always carry a book with you. This…
Obsessing the Mysteries at Sundance
Shortly after beginning my graduate career at Pitt, the place where Michael Chabon was an English major undergrad, I was an extra in the film version of his book Mysteries…
