Lesa Quade from Flint Talk Radio‘s Flaminpit Show is going to be interviewing me about Hungry Rats.
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Thursday, February 17 · 2:15pm – 3:00pm EST
Lesa Quade hosts the Flaminpit Show for Flint Talk Radio. … Read the rest
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If you enter Chicago from the east along I-94 or I-90 you would cross city limits at the Indiana-Illinois border or at the Calumet River. According to this book, however, you would seemingly not enter Chicago until you reached Roosevelt Road after another dozen-or-so miles.… Read the rest
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In Chicago, February has not been warmer than January this year. It feels like it must be at least a dozen degrees colder. What I have noticed is the increase in daylight, with the sun still above the horizon after five, sometimes while I’m getting dinner ready. … Read the rest
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Pages Bookstore in Downtown Flint, Michigan.
One of the most persistent writery romances is that one will be able to walk into any Barnes and Nobles or Borders and see a copy of her own book tucked neatly besides Thomas Pynchon or Toni Morrison.… Read the rest
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I’m not going to give a plot synopsis; there are some great reviews already posted online that already do just that! I’m going to talk instead about what surprised and impressed me most about Sales’ wonderful debut:
This book is a bona-fide page-turner.… Read the rest
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The New York Times has just posted a short but interesting piece on the recent popularity of E-Readers, such as the Kindle and the Nook, among young adults. As I’ve been saying for years, I don’t believe necessarily that print books are a dying breed, but at the very least we’re seeing a sea-change in the use of literary media that is going to drastically change publishing, writing, and reading.… Read the rest
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On Facebook, I’ve posted a public photo album of my reading at Quimby’s Bookstore in Chicago.
You can see more photos here.… Read the rest
Hungry Rats @ Quimby’s: Pictures! Read More »
In yesterday’s post (a good one, you should read it!) I mentioned the value in working on a number of different projects. Sometimes I work on a lot at one time (meaning in a single week), and other times I space them out more.… Read the rest
What I’ve been working on. What are you working on? Read More »
If you are a serious writer, then you may want to consider an MFA program at some point. I certainly do not think that I would be as good a writer today if I hadn’t gone to grad school, and certainly not through any lack of effort.… Read the rest
5 non-MFA steps you can take to becoming a better writer. Read More »
What does an adventurous writer do when the city where he lives is socked by the blizzard of the half-century? He documents the whole thing! I’ve taken some photos and videos of Snowmageddon 2011 on the North Side of Chicago (Edgewater Beach). … Read the rest