Just when I thought I had seen and done it all in Japan, I went to a restaurant with some of my friends and was treated to my first “ikizukuri”. What is this? It’s when you eat a fish or a squid raw while it’s still moving. To be quite honest, I was scared. I… [Read more…]
September 14, 2011
I’ve always been a fan of Roald Dahl books. As an ESL teacher I’ve had the pleasure of using his books as teaching instruments as well. In the heady days of my graduate program I find myself often turning to kids books for relief. First, there was my favorite, Where the Wild Things Are–which I… [Read more…]
August 31, 2011
Tobias Wolff wrote, “I write many, many drafts. That is why I rewrite, to try find ways of getting closer and closer to my characters”. It occurs to me that the only way to really succeed as a writer is to fall in love with you characters—to genuinely care about them as people. This love,… [Read more…]
August 24, 2011
I’m at the library right now. I’m considering whether to give this book away. My brain tells me one thing–that I need to get lighter. That I need to slowly start shedding the bounds of material possessions and become lighter if I’m going to survive as a traveler in the coming years. My heart tells… [Read more…]
August 16, 2011
Greetings, If you are reading this post, then most likely you’ve been directed here either by myself or by google adwords. I am a novelist and short story writer trying to make a name for myself. Essentially, I’m trying to get a copy of my short story collection–The Lexical Funk–into the hands of as many prospective… [Read more…]
August 13, 2011
Seth Godin posted this on his blog today: “Wasting time is not a waste In fact, wasting time is a key part of our lives. Wasting time poorly is a sin, because not only are you forgoing the productivity, generosity and art that comes from work, but you’re also giving up the downtime, experimentation and… [Read more…]
August 10, 2011
And this book would be another of the one’s that I would give away to Goodwill–another casuality of my desire to shed some weight before moving. I suppose my decision to give it away has more to do with my desire to give away books that I will never feasibly read again rather than anything… [Read more…]
July 29, 2011
I’m buying into the logic right now—both consciously or subconsciously. The book says that most online reviews tend to be positive: most of my online reviews do tend to be positive, including this one. It’s true because life is too short to write about things you hate. The monograph is short, flashy, and easy to… [Read more…]
July 6, 2011
When I was in high school I tried writing a paper that compared Holden Caulfield to Mark Renton in Trainspotting. I then tried writing a revision of this paper for a freshman literature class. Someone mentioned that Holden hates himself for being just like the “phonies” he sees around him. I think that is part… [Read more…]
June 12, 2011
You can check out my latest short story: “Glass Box Over Osaka” in the latest issue of Zygote in my Coffee: http://www.zygoteinmycoffee.com/100s/issue134inaglasboxover.html Enjoy.
December 7, 2011
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