Category: No Country for This Post
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Mr. (Largehearted) Boy & My #ZOMBIE Playlist
On July 5, we, Mr. Boy (as I affectionately refer to him when in conversation with myself) and I, collectively celebrated a universal independence as he published the soundtrack to my novel in his voracious read Book Notes series where “authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently […]
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Do You Know This Man With The Villainous Mustache?
One month ago the Underground New York Public Library, a visual library of NYC commuters reading books on subways, posted this picture of the coolest man in America, reading my novel ZOMBIE. If you know this most mustached man (or the victim he is planning to tie to the subway tracks), let him know he […]
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ROLE MODELS
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 surprisingly middle-of-the-road. From Esther Martin, owner of the scariest bar in Baltimore, to the playwright […]
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Three Little Nerds
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 dining room table in Ithaca, New York and write our faces off for hours at […]
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Book List
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 difficult time doing so. This year (will hopefully) be different. I’m a slow reader, but […]
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