Kadar Koli #5

I know, I know, poetry is boring, hard to understand and full of words that don’t make complete [...]

pirate cat podcast now up

t was my first live interview and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Teresa wasn’t feeling well, so if it sounds like I’m dominating the conversation, it’s because every time a question went out, she’d give me a look like, “please answer that while I cough.” [...]

Lit Quake X

we’re two weeks away from the tenth Lit [...]

Cooking Dirty

Never look at your favorite restaurant in the same way thanks to, “Cooking Dirty,” another tome in the long line of kitchen exposé books. Part memoir, part confessional, Jason Sheehan serves up the typical gross out “you won’t believe what happens before that souffle gets to your table” stories that inundate the foodie world. Sheehan, however, does it better than most, and importantly, doesn’t take himself too seriously as he chronicles his experiences during the long hours spent in commercial kitchens. [...]

do i need to be a secret agent to get an agent?

while the question, “how do i get an agent?” has beleaguered writers since Adam, we never really tire of asking it, do we? perhaps if we ask it enough, we’ll find the right [...]

Google book search settlement delayed…again

Google, authors (both for and against), net users and publishers will have to wait at least another four more months for the Google book search settlement-dust to [...]

read me

i’ve got a new story in the April issue of SoMa Literary [...]

Jesus was a no show

And this time the Christians are [...]

Adam’s Tongue

Language makes us human, Derek Bickerton asserts in “Adam’s Tongue”, not the other way around. Humans simply could not have taken the evolutionary leap out of the savannas without it. However, contrary to common belief, language isn’t as simple as a straight line evolution from the myriad of animal calls exhibited by our genealogical [...]

unfinished DFW book to be published

here’s betting this will turn out more like the latest 2-Pac album than a bona fide Wallace book.