Short stories will never die, but they could be awesome again
Posted in bookspublishingwritingFor a long enough while that I can no longer recall when it began, I’ve been reading lamentations about the current health of the short story, or, more accurately, the...
View ArticleAnd done (who’da thunk?)
Posted in booksgrad schoolwritingIt’s really settling in, with full force, that I’ve finished USC’s MPW program for all intents and purposes. Today, in my email, I got a note about some loan exit...
View ArticleLahiri, Diaz, Mullins, and et cetera
Posted in bloggingbookspublishingJhumpa Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth debuts at #1 on the New York Times hardcover fiction bestsellers list. I’ve read a number of people express surprise, I think mostly...
View ArticleSchool, Imagery, and et cetera
Posted in bloggingetc.grad schoolimagerylifephotographywritingAs you may or may not have noticed (if you read this on any regular basis), I became a little too busy in the past few weeks to keep up...
View ArticleI just don’t know what to do with myself
Posted in booksfaithgrad schoollifepublishingreligionsciencespiritualitywritingI went to an information session today at Regis University, a Jesuit institution in northern Denver. I think it’s best I...
View ArticleWhat I’m doing after summer vacation
Posted in grad schoolteachingWhat a couple of days. Orientation over the weekend to get started at the college where I’ll be teaching. All day session, and I think the catered lunch made me ill, but...
View ArticleBegin as you mean to go on
Posted in grad schoollifewritingSaw those words at Will Shetterly’s blog yesterday and thought it was sage advice. Then again, I often think Shetterly offers sage advice, among which, over the years,...
View ArticleNobody Really Knows What Good Enough Is
Posted in Dear WriterfictionpublishingwritingThe other day I mentioned you have to decide for yourself what “good enough” means to you. I want to elaborate. I opened this “Add New Post” page with the...
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