Heidegger's Glasses | Heidegger's Glasses

Sep.21.2011 Litquake-kick-off reading! I'm reading at Off the Richter Scale on Sunday, October 9th at 1:50. I'll be reading from Heidegger's Glasses which is out in paperback, but may be persuaded to read a story from my new book, Enchantment, which is out this spring. I might read The Enchanted Man or The...	Jan.28.2011 The Music I Listened to when Wrting Heidegger's Glasses David Gutowski (largeheartedboy on Twitter) asks writers to write about the music they listened to while writing particular books. Heidegger's Glasses took almost three years to write and it was challenging to remember that time in detail. I thought that music hadn't been a part of that novel...
Nov.10.2010 What is Fact and What is Fiction in Heidegger's Glasses? (a novel set in WWII) Imagination and History: Heidegger's Glasses Over twenty years ago, when I’d written just one collection of short stories, I heard a woman’s voice from deep below the earth. She lived in Germany during World War II and was helping people answer letters to the dead. I knew her...	Nov.02.2010 Publishing a novel How hard it is to evoke the real experience of publishing a book, the way one teeters on the edge of losing perspective, the way one regains it (if lucky), the way we (and our characters) enter/re-enter the world. Thaisa Frank writes about the release of her novel, Heidegger's Glasses, with a...
Oct.15.2010 A Thousand Reasons Why I Can't See My New Book I am a very temporary expatriate in Guanajuato--by choice--I have to see this city (and others) for my next novel. The Festival of Cervantes has started, but I am tucked away in the hills and go to town for the sort of experiences that only writers and artists and filmmakers regard as adventures....