Posted in March 18, 2010 ¬ 7:31 PM.Eric Shonkwiler
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 [...]
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Posted in February 28, 2010 ¬ 2:16 AM.Eric Shonkwiler
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 [...]
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Posted in February 11, 2010 ¬ 8:56 PM.Eric Shonkwiler
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 [...]
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Posted in January 27, 2010 ¬ 10:23 PM.Eric Shonkwiler
Gray skies again in Riverside. We’ve had a lot of rain, enough to make your cowboy hat-wearing protagonist get comically splashed by passing cars, and enough to make him thankful he brought his leather hat. (I’m like those old Batman action figures. I come in Original, Rainproof, Snowproof, and “Jesus fuck, it’s 106 degrees and [...]
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Posted in December 4, 2009 ¬ 1:26 PM.Eric Shonkwiler
Taking a leap from the Best of 2009 Blog Challenge, presented to me and you by 20SB, I give you my year in reading, approximately. I say approximately because there’re a few here I can’t remember if I read in 2009 or the close of 2008.
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan. The only non-fiction [...]
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Posted in November 11, 2009 ¬ 8:36 PM.Eric Shonkwiler
A little late, but I just stumbled upon this article at Huffington Post, detailing the suppression of footage that followed the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. You can find a video and smaller article from the author here. The video is graphic. Then there’s this photo series at the Denver Post, following a new soldier [...]
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Posted in November 4, 2009 ¬ 12:25 AM.Eric Shonkwiler
There is a tendency for people to call me by my last name. I don’t know why this is. Furthermore, they have a tendency to shorten my name to Shonk, or Shonky. I hate this with a passion. What I don’t hate, though, is when my name gets turned into a verb, which has now [...]
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Posted in October 18, 2009 ¬ 12:24 AM.Eric Shonkwiler
I imagine some of you folks aren’t familiar with that name. Let’s rectify that.
That Evening Sun is an adaptation of one of Gay’s short stories. I can’t believe I haven’t heard about it until now.
Here’s an excerpt of Provinces of Night, in my opinion, his best work. In Provinces and in his first, The Long [...]
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Posted in October 16, 2009 ¬ 12:53 PM.Eric Shonkwiler
It’s the colors that I remember most. The room is dim but lit sourcelessly. I can see the walls, cream colored, and the sheets I’m tangled in as pink like a conch. And your hair, dark as the corners of the room, dark as the door. You get into bed and I put my arm [...]
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