The Literary.

I often consider the notion that we write because we’re trying to bridge a gap of connection to others. Before I had ever published, I longe...

One form of literature, at least the one that thrives through publishing on the internet, has been transformed by the internet. I’m talking...

Outside of a classic that contemporary readers often feel obligated to read, for example, Proust’s In Search of Lost Time , few probably e...

The relationship of a reader to a work of fiction, when it works, is symbiotic. In the best instances--or at least the most conducive to a ...

The position Andre takes in My Dinner with Andre is a despondent one of privilege. He’s so conscious of his despair that it seems a thing o...

Decomp magazine has nominated my piece, "Building the Perfect Wings" for the 2016 Best of the Net . Thanks to the editorial staf...

It's been a busy and productive time, and this explains the dearth of recent posts. However, I have new pieces upcoming in five journals...

A new work of memoir / creative nonfiction is live at Gravel Magazine . "The Other Animals" details my crafty evasion of the fu...

The path to a successful writing career is not always clearly marked. I think of Samuel Beckett writing Waiting for Godot , and his surpris...

Thanks to editor Jason Jordan at Decomp Magazine , who has accepted for publication my fiction "Building the Perfect Wings" for t...

Fiction usually enters the world under mysterious circumstances. Over time, it can molder in a file, or it can take on a new life through th...

In the midst of trying to solve a writing problem in my fiction, I tend to “go to the literature,” to quote Joan Didion. I used to do this ...

I find that, in spite of my own sage advice to myself, I am working on a first person novel again. John Gardner, in The Art of Fiction , sa...

You may never feel like a real writer until someone gives you that first resounding acceptance, and requests your work for their journal. A...