Last Friday (or was it Saturday?) I received in the mail the feedback on one of my stories that I submitted to the editors of an anthology. When I read over their notes in the manuscript as well as the two typed pages indicating problems and possible solutions, I didn’t find myself feeling defensive, which [...]
Entries from June 2006
June 23, 2006
Mrs. Dalloway
“Oh! thought Clarissa, in the middle of my party, here’s death, she thought.”
“She felt somehow very like him — the young man who had killed himself. She felt glad that he had done it; thrown it away.”
“(F)or she admitted, she knew nothing about them, only jumped to conclusions, as one does, for what can one [...]
June 23, 2006
Another byline
I forgot about posting this one earlier. It’s my review in Playback:stl of Hydeware Theatre’s “Bleacher Bums.” I’ve really enjoyed the last two productions of theirs that I’ve reviewed. If you live in St. Louis, they present some worthwhile theater with a lot of energy.
I’ll have another review to post shortly, I hope.
June 21, 2006
Because my friend Ryan asked
…whether this page will have a picture of my dog, Dakota, of course it must. He’s the reason I’m getting published this fall, after all.
June 21, 2006
Heatwave
The summer solstice was at 7:26 this morning. That makes this the longest day of the year, doesn’t it? Officially, at least. It’s going to be 97 degrees today, and on the radio, when the weatherman was giving his report, he said, “Heat index? Don’t ask, you don’t wanna know.” Summer in this city is [...]
June 20, 2006
Donald Antrim has a new book
I had the good luck to be a participant in a workshop led by Donald Antrim back in the summer of 2004 at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. And it was luck, because he was a last-minute substitute for the writer who was supposed to lead the workshop. That week was wonderful for [...]
June 15, 2006
The myth of page 39
So, there’s this novel I’ve been working on.
I started writing it–gosh, I can’t remember if it was one or two years ago. That’s pretty bad, isn’t it? I could find out if I looked back in my journal, but I don’t have that handy at the moment. Anyway, I just started working on it again [...]
