Some That Man Might Be?
All That Man Is by David Szalay My rating: 2 of 5 stars I kept waiting for the irony to kick in. As I read stories of one white, straight,…
Fun and Nudity With A Famous Person
Sure, professionally speaking I'm in a lifeboat in the middle of a vast, unforgiving ocean. The ship's disappeared beneath the waves and I'm not sure they got a message off…
In The Midst of Revision
The revisions on the new book have been taking it out of me. Even though my editor and I agree that this is necessary and I'm pretty sure I'm headed in the…
Review: Ian Kershaw’s To Hell and Back. A New Warning From History
Professor Ian Kershaw, best known for his landmark two-volume biography of Adolf Hitler (titled Hubris and Nemesis) takes on a gargantuan project in To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949, a…
Summer Of Long Knives Kindle Edition Is Free Through November 14th
So we did this with Dismantle the Sun because it was my birthday. Now we're doing it with Summer of Long Knives because...well...actually it's part of a larger promotion by my publisher. Anyway,…
I’m Looking For A Few Good Readers
A maximum of five, to be exact. I've got a version of Born Under A Bad Sign uploaded to a secret location on the interwebs, and I'd like the thoughts, impressions, and very…
My Birthday Gift To You: Dismantle the Sun (Kindle Version) is Free Through the 14th
Your friend and humble blogger is turning 44 tomorrow, and he thought he'd reverse the usual birthday dynamic and offer his readers a gift. Those with Kindle devices, or tablets…
Draft Two Of the Book’s Done.
Beneath this title page are 192 other pages containing the text of my next novel, here for the first time on actual paper. I wanted to record it in pristine…
New Review of Dismantle the Sun
As longtime readers of this blog know, I try to avoid reading published reviews, whether positive, negative, or indifferent. There are several reasons for this. The reason currently in the lead is that I'm…
Rolling the Odometer Over
I haven't spoken much about my new book project, and you'll get no grand revelations today either. It may please you to know however that the first draft has just passed…