Category Archives: online

moonlighting

For the last few weeks, and for many to come, I’ve been doing my part at a new multi-city metroblog called afterhourscity that officially launched last week. I’m in LA,…

Driven to NaDruWruNi

Did you ever have one of those weeks where nothing goes right? You’re putting away groceries and the orange juice slips out of your hand and explodes on the kitchen…

Almond v. Sarvas

Both Steve Almond and Mark Sarvas have been guests on Pinky’s Paperhaus. Today they are bickering (Steve in Salon, Mark on his blog). But I think they are both quite…

Just hunky dory

Bob Sassone has got a new, succinct Professor Barnhardt’s Journal online: it’s favorite words. Mine (copacetic) seems a little frivolous after more than a week of terrible news. Jonathan Lethem…

That and $3 will get you a cup of coffee

Amazon.com has launched a new section selling short stories (essays and nonfiction, too) for 49 cents each. John Scalzi takes a look from both the reader’s side (thumbs up) and…

They found Carolyn’s head behind the garage

In September, a month-long auction launches on ebay where anybody, yes anybody, can enter literary history. If you’re the high bidder: Stephen King‘s zombies will rip you limb from limb,…

What you can’t live without

Professor Barnhardt’s Journal, in its current issue, asks a handful of writers to list what’s most important to them. PP alumni Ned Vizzini and Tod Goldberg are in the roster….