10 Steps To Radically Increase Your Odds of Succeeding in Business.
From Anil Dash. I'll just give you step one: Be raised with access to clean drinking water and sanitation. (Every tech billionaire I've ever spoken to has a toilet!) …
Greetings, Book Club Members
Dismantle the Sun is now listed at readerscircle.org, a website that connects book clubs with authors like me. How fortunate that I am an author like me. Check it out.
First Birthday Without
Today would have been my Dad's 93rd birthday. Venice took this brief film on my Dad's 90th birthday, and I thought I'd throw it up here as a memory of…
The Worst Book Cover Ever
Only yesterday I was making a few suggestions about what the Summer of Long Knives cover should be. Basically, I suggested a theme and left it at that. The cover…
Quote That Made My Weekend
Ah, Gore Vidal, you got a little weird at the end, but when you were on, you were magic: In the Sistine Chapel, Gore Vidal once came upon Henry Kissinger…
So Over It Contest #12: Subterranean Edition
So Over It #11 is now so over. The answer is Okeha Castle, which was among the inspirations for Jay Gatsby's residence in East Egg in The Great Gatsby and was…
I Get My Ideas From Notions and Lotions–An Artisanal Idea and Skin Care Shop In Medina
Rebecca Makkai over at the Ploughshares blog surveyed writers about questions they're always asked with a view towards suggesting more compelling alternatives, and it's true that these questions are evergreens.…
Enlightened, Farewell.
Because I don't have HBO, I was just starting to catch up with the show on iTunes. I'm in the middle of the first season, and it depresses me to…
Michelle Shocks
Charles Krafft had me asking the question of how far artists can go round the twist before screwing up impressions of their work. Now comes Michelle Shocked. I'd never been…
Peter Gabriel, Solsbury Hill, and the Best Seats I Ever Had
19 years ago, I saw Peter Gabriel live at the Tacoma Dome, where he did a version of "Solsbury Hill" very much like the one in the video below. (Naturally.…