Jane Eyre-ity on WUWM’s Lake Effect
August 10, 2011
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This essay was broadcast on Milwaukee Public Radio, WUWM’s Lake Effect program on August 9,2011. Have a listen here! |
Up on critter creek…
August 7, 2011
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My digital turntable is spinning. I have flipped on the magical Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Rob Young, writing in his marvelous new survey of Britain’s “visionary music” of the last one hundred years, Electric Eden, calls the piece, “magisterial…gliding out of the dock like a gigantic galleon.” This […] |
Jane Eyre-ity
July 24, 2011
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(This essay was broadcast on Milwaukee Public Radio on August 9, 2011. Have a listen here. Or go ahead and keep on reading…) Flashback to the late ‘80s. The flight from Sydney to LA, still parked at the gate, is going to be full, I can tell. But I’ve lucked out and am comfortably perched […] |
Lightning strikes
June 9, 2011
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This review was published in the very cool, new Washington Independent Review of Books on June 9, 2011. WIRB is highly recommended. Lightning By Jean Echenoz, The New Press, 142 pages Thomas Edison, masterminding a dubious turn-of-the 20th century media event, staged the electrocution death of Topsy, an unfortunate Coney Island elephant, on January 4, 1903. […] |
The day I accepted a story for Hunger Mountain—a visit to Yesville
May 18, 2011
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(This is part 2 of a rant on what it’s like to be the new fiction editor of Hunger Mountain – A Journal of the Arts based in Montpelier, Vermont.) Dawns like any other. Cold, miserable, wet and dark. Man, that was some winter. Wasn’t it rotten where you were? Don’t tell me you’re from […] |
