Handsome and Glamorous |
It's official now: only the really good-looking men are bisexual. Thats the gist of a press release about a recently discovered painting that some scholars claim is a portrait of William Shakespeare....
Posted by on Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:42:00 GMT |
Unitasking |
Its been so long since I posted anything that the title of this one could just as well be Zombie Librarian Returns to the Daylight World, part 2 but I hate to repeat myself, even when the reason is...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:53:00 GMT |
Good Writing Bites |
Probably every author has had the thought: "Some people wouldn't recognize good writing if it jumped up and bit 'em on the ass."This cliché came to mind as I looked over my meager store of reader revi...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:49:00 GMT |
Rules of the Road |
I'm a native New Yorker, which means I'm a pedestrian. Not only do I not own a car, I don't even have a driver's license. My attitude to cars is Ratso Rizzo's (Dustin Hoffman's character in Midnight C...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:24:00 GMT |
Class warfare |
OK, I confessthe title of this post is misleading. It's the middle of August, everybody's on vacation, absolutely nothing of interest seems to be happening (for those of us uninterested in the Olympi...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:22:00 GMT |
Amateurs climbing the walls |
The quotation/solution to last week's acrostic puzzle in the Sunday New York Times was from Edna Ferber: "Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupatio...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:18:00 GMT |
Zombie Librarian Returns to the Daylight World |
Like many writers, I have a day job to help me pay the rent: in my case, as a cataloger in a library that specializes in natural history. I don't talk about it much because there's not much interestin...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:03:00 GMT |
Reading aloud from Phyllida |
I had a reading at the Park Slope, Brooklyn, Barnes & Noble two weeks ago. It was the major event for me so far in my publishing odyssey.Phyllida is what I like to call a "romantic comedy." That m...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:20:00 GMT |
Featured in OUT Magazine |
Phyllida is listed in the no. 1 (top) position in OUT Magazine's June/July issue "Hot List: Literature" feature on "Summer Reads."My hero, Andrew (a total top), would be proud.
Posted by on Wed, 07 May 2008 00:09:00 GMT |
Publication eve |
My "debut novel" (how's that for making me feel eighteen again?), Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander, is being released tomorrow. In this age of the life lived online, I have this nagging feeli...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:20:00 GMT |
