Because I don't really know either person, though I do follow Ellis on Twitter, I can't speak to the reasons why Bret Easton Ellis bags on David Foster Wallace. (Based…
David Rothkopf's Power Inc. is an outstanding primer on the evolution of the relationship between states and corporations. Starting in 13th century Sweden with the foundation of a state mining…
For your early afternoon amusement...negative reviews of Joseph Conrad. A sample: An Outcast of the Islands is a disagreeable story of reckless men, disgusting women, and repulsive scenes. As a study of character,…
Now that Dismantle the Sun's been published, there is a serious danger that someone might actually read it. So if you, as that someone, read the book and afterwards want to…
As I think I mentioned earlier, traditional publishers released slightly over 300,000 books last year. It's a bit sobering to think of Dismantle the Sun, which I sweated over for nearly…
Didn't catch too much of the Democratic National Convention tonight, but I saw Michelle Obama deliver one hell of a speech. I spent six years in Utah. In high school, I…
Now that Dismantle the Sun is out and available for purchase, you might think of me as The Great Author, perched on a throne in a Brobdingnagian abode on an Olympian slope,…
Through a former classmate, I came upon Michelle Hoover's take on the controversy surrounding William Giraldi's nasty review of Alix Ohlin's books, which fits into a larger conversation about whether…
It took ten years, ten months and an odd number of days from inception of the project to this point, but Booktrope Press has released my debut novel, Dismantle the Sun…