Category Archives: No Country for This Post

My Oldest Short Story is “Vacant”

Posted on April 2, 2012 by

There are three basic, self-assigned, writer phases that have pre-dated the fourth phase I am entering now: 1) Dream; 2) Write & Dream; 3) Just Write; and 4) Published Author. For the longest time, I was stuck in Phase 1. … Continue reading →

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Disintegrating Heroes

Posted on February 29, 2012 by

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about disintegrating heroes and their journey towards redemption in a broken world. Reversing ourselves in order to move forward. I realize this seems to be an uneven phrase, or maybe even a contradictory one … Continue reading →

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If you are in the market for a smart, funny, subversive take on the memoir, do yourself a favor and read John Waters’ Role Models: “a self-portrait told through intimate profiles of favorite personalities—some famous, some unknown, some criminal, some … Continue reading →

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Three Little Nerds

Posted on January 13, 2012 by

When I started writing, the only other person I knew who loved language as much as me and studied fiction like a nerd like me was my beautiful wife. She and I would sit across from one another at our … Continue reading →

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Book List

Posted on January 1, 2012 by

This year, oh this year, I’ve decided to keep a blog list of every book that I read and include my favorite quotes. When trying to think back on the books that I read in 2011, I had an embarrassingly … Continue reading →

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Last New Year Ending

Posted on December 31, 2011 by

I like endings, but this isn’t how I want to begin. It’s quiet tonight in this apartment in Brooklyn. Our upstairs neighbors have gone out, to celebrate I’m sure. The street is lined with cars, everyone parked and in for … Continue reading →

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Literary Hide-and-Seek with Terrorist Errors

Posted on December 18, 2011 by

There is a redundancy in the process of book publishing that can make one feel like they are loosing their grip on sanity, or in this case that the damned zombies will never stop coming. If I were to count … Continue reading →

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Paragraph Nights

Posted on December 13, 2011 by

My cousin, Dominic, is a musician. He lives in Philly and teaches music to folks who want to learn to rock like him. Since I’ve known him he’s been in a bazillion and four bands, each successively better than the … Continue reading →

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The Controlled Burn of a Collapsing Man

Posted on December 30, 2009 by

I woke up this morning with a smile, thinking about the word “collapsing.” The word holds a negative sum–breaking down, folding in, falling, crumbling all around. But the word, for me, means quite the opposite. Collapsing up. Collapsing Man. I … Continue reading →

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FDU TLR Reading.

Posted on September 20, 2009 by

Some exciting news to share: First, I have been invited to give a reading at the launch party for The Literary Review’s Spring issue held in the Orangerie of the Library of Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey. The … Continue reading →

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