Most authors post a quick exerpt and expect you (the glorious audience) to be appeased with that. Not with my book. I want as many people to read it as possible, so I’m giving it away for free. You can read and download my book, chapter by chapter, at my website, ksawyerpaul.com.
No Chinook is my [...]

Hey there Moodspinners. My name is Cash Kerouac, and I write music reviews for indie darling Broken Dial, the premiere site for reviews and commentary on the latest in independent music. However, given that I happen to be studying politics in college, I’ve been paying attention to the debates, and the powers that be thought [...]

Hello, darlings. My name is Sara Benincasa, and I’m a brand-new blogger here on this magically delicious site. Ah, but this is not my first foray into the blogosphere–I also have a sex ‘n dating blog over at Nerve.com called SJ1000.
Aaaaaaaaaaand I host a talk show in my bathtub. It’s [...]

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At an unannounced press conference this morning at the U.N., Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao finally admitted what most political and sociological pundits have long suspected: The extremely complicated, ancient Mandarin dialect is without structure or meaning of any kind; the language is completely made up on the spot. The Prime Minister [...]

In the literary community, we are obsessed with the old masters. Who they were, who they knew, who they loved, what they did. The days before the rise of the film as a viable alternative—and to some, a serious threat—to the written word are heralded as the golden age: it was and [...]

Here’s another squirrelly description of the novel writing process:
You render a world, fall into it, and take a prose camera with you.
But enough about that! “Where’s the payoff?” You’re wondering. “Is this guy ever going to do anything but yammer about writing novels? I don’t write, so that last paragraph is [...]

First, this week, a link. I love it, so I won’t say anything at all about it—save, perhaps, “There is a light that never goes out.” Here ‘tis.
Maybe I’ll say one more thing. MFA dropouts of the world unite.
Writing can’t be taught. Form can be studied, and discussed. Specificity [...]

I was watching the news and believe it or not they were featuring a story about Japanese people that would bring their old or broken knitting needles and stick it into a foam box as a ceremonial tradition and then the box would be buried. This is when my phone began singing Sublime to me, [...]

There is a light that never goes out.
As I think of how I’d want to start my first post, the only thing that comes into my mind is these words, as sung by Morrissey in one of the most touchingly hopeless lovesongs around: There is a light that never goes out.
Ladies and Gentlemen, [...]