Monthly Archives: May 2011
Progress Report: 5/31/11
Still coming out of my post-New York coma, so I’ll be (relatively) brief … Copies of the Ed Kemmick book, The Big Sky, By and By, have been bundled up for reviewers and will go out this week. Release date is July 26. I’m plug, plug, plugging away at the new novel project. This is … Continue reading
Grab Bag: The MFA effect
First: Read this story in Salon, provocatively titled “Are MFA programs ruining American fiction?” (I’ll end the suspense now and tell you that the piece doesn’t answer the question in any substantive way.) Then come back and I’ll share my meager thoughts. I was fascinated to read that article because it’s a topic my good … Continue reading
Another Page: The books of Emily Carr
By O. Alan Weltzien I have just been reading the four (short) nonfiction books written back in the early 1940s by the great British Columbian painter Emily Carr. I have long wanted to read the first and shortest of those, Klee-Wyck. For anyone interested in getting the feel of temperate zone rainforest; of Haida Indians, totem … Continue reading
Progress Report: 5/24/11
This is where I am right now. I’d say I’m progressing nicely. XOXOXOXOX, Craiggers
Once More, With Feeling: The “Cinderella” You Won’t Find In Children’s Books
Guest post by Jim Thomsen Last week, somewhere between Sublimity and Silverton, Oregon, between spitting rain and a sliver of sunlight far to the north, I broke the morning silence with the first CD of the second day of a road trip. The CD was “Firefall: Greatest Hits,” and the second song was “Cinderella.” … Continue reading
Grab Bag: Real Love
Like any good sports fan, I’m superstitious, so it’s with no small amount of trepidation that I dare post this. Here goes: I am a Dallas Mavericks fan, and I’m feeling good. Real good. In about 12 hours, I could be feeling bad. Real bad. Game 2 of the Mavericks’ Western Conference finals series against … Continue reading
Another Page: ‘A Farewell to Arms’
This is the book that did it. The one that made me want to write fiction. I’ve written before — a couple of times, actually — about how Hemingway’s prose resonated with me on a structural level. No need to plow back over that ground. No, this is a love letter not to Papa but … Continue reading
Progress Report: 5/17/11
Here we go: Ed Kemmick‘s book, The Big Sky, By and By, has been approved for print, and the first wave of review copies should be landing at the doorstep any day now. Those will be distributed around the state, and by mid-June, we’ll be taking advance orders for signed copies. The official release date … Continue reading
Once More, With Feeling: 10cc
When I tell people that I have obsessive tendencies … well, nobody really doubts me. But today, I have a concrete example of it. Let’s take a trip, shall we, to 1977: The other night, I played this song 10 times in a row. The only reason it was not 11 is that I … Continue reading
