literary fiction
November 5, 2009
- Dear Reader,It’s been nearly four years since my last novel, Nowhere is a Place was published, which is why I’m very excited to announce the upcoming publication of my long-awaited seventh novel, GLORIOUS (Akashic Books, 978-1936070114, $15.95) which will be available in a reader-friendly trade paperback edition on May 1st, 2010. But you can pre-order now at Amazon.com for the discounted ...
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October 25, 2009
- The jury may still be out on Iraq and Iran, on Brittany’s hairstyle and global warming, but by now we have a clear-cut verdict on the issue of western decline. No longer sufficient to admit that the West has lost relative position with regard to the rest of the world in material terms, it’s past time to confess that we are deep into the historically well-attested syndrome sobriqueted [my ...
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October 20, 2009
- HEIDEGGER'S GLASSES, the first book to be published by Phoenix, in it's new direction as a serious literary press, is coming out this May. The Editor-in-Chief has been consulting me about the cover, and I just got this write-up for an advance promotion on Amazon. (There's one there now for the Audio, but the Editor-in-Chief thought it was too purple.) Heidegger’s Glasses opens during the end ...
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October 19, 2009
- Whoo hoo! Finally got around to adding one of my favorite recent short stories, "DeathThreats", to my blog. If you are cursed by mortal fears, have a dread of dying, this is the tale for you. Mordant without being morbid, evocative, chilling and funny.Pop over to my blog and either listen to it or download the PDF--no charge, as free as Woodstock (without the bad drugs). And do ...
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October 10, 2009
- This book has very clear echoes of Proust, both in the writing style and in the sense of nostalgia that pervades the story of aristocratic decline. The references are clear and deliberate - in the very first chapter, Banville's narrator refers to his fragments of memory as "madeleines" and talks of his "search for time misplaced."None of this boded very well for the novel - I ...
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October 7, 2009
- Re: Redroom blog theme "rescue." Helping the undersung literary fiction writer is something that has long been on my mind. I am a director at an arts foundation called the Dactyl Foundation in NYC. Primarily, I organize lectures on art and science and run poetry readings and discussion forums, but the Foundation doesn't do anything for novelists. Since I am a novelist, I'm not sure ...
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October 2, 2009
- Every once in a while, I come across a book that is so mind-numbingly dull, so lackluster in execution, so obvious in plot, that it makes me want to heave it across the room in a fit of gall. No, I’m not going to name names, though I could. What boggles me is a question I have no answer to: how the bloody h-e-double hockey sticks do the things get published in the first place? Yes, ...
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September 26, 2009
- In a recent article for Entertainment Weekly, Dan Brown was profiled for the release of his new Da Vinci Code sequel, The Lost Symbol. From the beginning of the piece – the very tagline, in fact – we are made to know that Brown is a proud geek, and, more importantly, that his geekiness is a kind of answer to his critics: “The author talks about…being a geek, trying to ignore his critics ...
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September 19, 2009
- The best thing about writing literary fiction is that you send a thought out into the Universe and you never know who's not reading it.
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September 18, 2009
- Having launched the Kindle-iPhone-iPod Touch version of my new novel Trixie weeks ago, I was anxious to see if the title came up, with all its fingers and toes, at the top of a book search on Amazon.com. To my disappointment, I found that Trixie ranks low in the listings. It is preceded by several books written by Trixie Koontz, who, it turns out, is Dean Koontz's golden retriever.Trixie the ...
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