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Over at New Pages there has been a review of Arcadia, a new journal associated with the MFA program at the University of Central Oklahoma. In the issue is my short and very odd play, “I, Arbus.” The play centers on Simone Brookman, an aging New York actress. Throughout her monologue, she argues the ruination…

Happy holiday greetings to my website viewers! Recently, I’ve begun a profile over on the Goodreads site. You can find that page here and also one for the book here. Feel free to add me as a friend and review the book once you’ve read  the thing (it comes out in March). If you’d like…

My publisher has been busy developing my book’s distribution. Accordingly, it is now available for pre-order at the following websites: Amazon sites in: USA Canada Japan France Germany UK The UK site also delivers to the following countries: Italy, Ireland, Spain, Greece, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, Sweden, San Marino, Finland, Portugal, Netherlands, and Denmark. Britain’s…

Oh, I miss the summer and the crazy-ness and hi-jinks of writing conferences. Over the last couple of years, the main benefits of writing conferences I’ve found are: Finding friends and peers interested in writing literature. Learning by osmosis (craft talks, workshops, basking, etc.). Discovering new ways of writing, and viewing, literature. Learning to appreciate…

Browsing the web is an odd thing. You come across references to your work, your artistic output every now and then. So far I’ve found a couple of mentions of my essay: “Stalking Woody Allen: Your Guide in 54 Parts,” published in Australia’s premier journal, Etchings. Both short mentions were positive (phew!). They can be…

I recently attended the Colgate Writers’ Conference in Hamilton, NY. While there I met some great people and outstanding writers. In particular J. Robert Lennon (MFA director at Cornell and author of several funny novels), Brian Hall (novelist — check out his recent one on Robert Frost), and Peter Balakian (poetry, memoir, and so forth).…

So far this summer I’ve been taking it easy with little time spent reading. I did, however, reread The Great Gatsby. My main reason for this was to see how Fitzgerald uses the peripheral narrator for my own novel. Then I read Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland, a post-9/11 novel set in New York and London. 9/11 doesn’t…

Today I heard that my translation of an untitled Anglo-Saxon poem (but one often referred to as “Wulf and Eadwacer”) together with an introductory essay will be published in Boston University’s Pusteblume: A Journal of and about Translation.  The issue is due out in spring 2011.

I dabble in poetry on the odd occasion, trying to create form and meaning in a new way. My usual output in this genre is around 3-4 poems a year. Pretty meager by anyone’s standards. I do wish to talk about the lyric essay (nonfiction/poetry hybrid) in an upcoming post, but for now a call-out…