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71Five Books Which Changed the Course of My Life
In setting out to write this article on five books that changed me, three of them came to mind right away. They were all three fiction books. After pausing to think for another second, the last two came to...
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60Force Without Law
Notes on force without law, working with others, writing fiction, Gordon Lish, Gilles Deleuze, Jack Gilbert, Flannery O'Connor, and Donald Ray Pollock's first book, Knockemstiff
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49John Krasinski's Choices for "Best Books" (and Mine)
Now that John Krasinski's wrote and directed his first film, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, a film adapted from the late David Foster Wallace's short story collection of the same name, he's got street...
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6910 Of The Best Big Books
I can’t speak for anyone else but, personally, I love big books. Big, fat wristbreakers that can double as an emergency paperweight or doorstop. I just think that they’re usually a lot deeper than your...
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69Getting My Yin Off k.d.lang
We talk about food, and sex, and poetry, Cormac McCarthy who happens to be a big Lish favorite, and whatever comes to mind in the time we have allotted together to speak before another client arrives.
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67Notes From A Complete Stranger, Part 8
Schools are again closed today in Louisville. That makes a solid week. Still 180,000 people without power in the state of Kentucky....
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62Notes From A Complete Stranger, Part 4
Unbelievable as it is, Barack Obama will be our nation's next President in just a few days. Wow, my country actually voted for a black...
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69Notes From A Complete Stranger, Part 2
I am on assignment, but I am not being paid. I have taken this journalistic venture on my own. Yes, it would be nice to be paid, but I am not. To think...
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66Notes From A Complete Stranger, Part 1
David Foster Wallace has done for cruise ship essays what Cormac McCarthy did for the novel. Really, every essay written by Wallace rings true...
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48Underrated Novels
10. The Commissariat of Enlightenment by Ken Kalfus. Electric prose describing the shift from the written word to the visual image in Russia on the heels of the death of Tolstoi and the emergence of...
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