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This Saturday I’ll be on a panel on books and blogging at the CLMP’s Literary Writers’ Conference, with Luc Sante, Ed Park and Emily Gould, and moderated by Marie Mockett. If I’m exhausted and feeling like my life belongs to … Continue reading →

Waking up that morning, it was like I imagined it had to be for the villagers in Middle Earth, the day after the ring was thrown into the lake of fire and Mordor crumbled. I say November 6th because that’s … Continue reading →

Before Rush accused Obama of running using ‘class warfare’, and saying that he intended to raise your taxes, he accused Republican and fiscal conservative Mike Huckabee. In January. Of both. Gail Collins on the election: “Our two-year presidential campaign now … Continue reading →

I don’t know that it was always this way, but, for as long as I can remember, just as we move into the final weeks of the Presidential campaign the focus shifts to the undecided voters. “Who are they?” the … Continue reading →

South Korean investigators, matching once-secret documents to eyewitness accounts, are concluding that the U.S. military indiscriminately killed large groups of refugees and other civilians early in the Korean War. A half-century later, the Seoul government’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has … Continue reading →

Jane Kokernak at leafstitchword sent me over to Wordle today. Below is a word cloud using the pages of my unfinished new novel, The Queen of the Night, that I read from at the Wesleyan Writers Conference last week. And … Continue reading →