I now keep it quite short.

There’s an idea I came across while rereading The Crossing.  Briefly: if evil was not rewarded by the world, then people wouldn’t engage in it.  Since there is evil, it is rewarded.  Good, then, in its purest form, exists in spite of any recompense.  I have a hard time believing [...]

I’ve got a new short story up at Connotation Press.  It’s “rust noir”, as I like to call it.  A modern, Midwestern spin on the traditional noir tale.  You can find it here. The story is called “Rural Tendencies”.  You can also find an essay on Cowboy Bebop and noir that I wrote here. Some [...]

I call it “Reality Hunger: a Manifesto”.  This may sound familiar to you, since David Shields recently came out with a book by the same name.  The difference is my name is at the bottom of the cover, not his.

Where to start?

Classes are nearly over for the quarter–I’ll be back in Ohio in less than a month.  I’ve been so busy I’ve actually had to use a calendar to keep track of everything.  Today was a potluck; baked a cake, talked with graduates of the program, a professor’s ex-husband– an odd, rich dynamic.  Good [...]

Verdad Magazine has just released its 8th issue, and an excerpt of my novel Above All Men is included.
I’m very proud to be published alongside the likes of Dixie Salazar, Frank X. Gaspar, and am particularly proud to share a publication with Ricardo Zamorano Baez, a classmate of mine who is a phenomenal poet and, [...]

I’m taking my second crack at going offline.

That song was stuck in my head while in Joshua Tree over the weekend.  For no particular reason, I don’t think.  It’s not apropos.  I’ve had Cash on my mind a lot lately.
I went to Joshua Tree with a group of poets from the university, camped for a [...]

Doesn’t that kick ass?
I know I’ve been gone a while, and I won’t be coming back soon.  I waver between shunning the internet completely (nearly) again and accepting it.  Mostly I’m able to resist the urge to click things, sometimes.  I’d get more done if I went into exile again, I know.
I’ve been waiting to [...]

Things that are making me happy.  Cheers:
1. Justified.  A really kickass show starring  Timothy Olyphant.  He plays a US Marshal named Raylan Givens who gets reassigned to his homestate of Kentucky after shooting a gunrunner in Florida “justified”, he says, because the man drew first.  Givens is an old style lawman, throwing down what the [...]

Like Saint John of Patmos.  Except I have fewer many-headed and horned beasts in my writing.  I say fewer.

My exile has done me a lot of good.  And a lot has happened.  Chief among these things is that I just finished my third book.  It came in at 102,128 words.  Shorter than I anticipated, but [...]

I’m considering abandoning most of the networking sites I frequent.  This will stay up because it’s my author website, but other than that, no more tweets, no more facebooking.  Probably limit the blogs I read to the literary ones.  It’s not you, it’s me.  Well, it’s you a little.  I’m putting myself through hell by [...]