Publishers at Play
When I was a pretentious young man (I’m older now; but that doesn’t mean I’m less pretentious), the Paris Review Writers at Work anthologies were my Bible. (Or at least my Apocrypha. My Bible was a...
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I first encountered A Dance To The Music Of Time in the mid-’90’s. A Borders bookstore had opened at the West Belt Mall in Wayne, NJ, and as was my wont, I inspected the fiction section — or was it...
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Virtual Memories – season 3 episode 5 Greg Gerke – Sound Before Story To celebrate the publication of Middle C, the new novel by literary legend William Gass, I sat down with writer Greg Gerke, who...
View ArticlePodcast: Readercon 2013 – Fairies and Zombies
Virtual Memories – season 3 episode 15 – Readercon – Fairies and Zombies It’s time for a two-part mega-podcast! I visited the 24th annual Readercon, conference on literary fantasy & science fiction...
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Virtual Memories – season 3 episode 23 – Wine, Women, and Novel-Writing “Restaurants follow the opposite direction of stories: they’re like finding a book of blank pages and trying to come up with...
View ArticleIn a Perfect World
Last Friday was my final day at my job. I quit it to launch a new business (sorta; it’s complicated). The last time I was unemployed was 1995. I was 24, finished grad school in May, moved back to NJ,...
View ArticleEpisode 325 – Boris Fishman
Virtual Memories Show 325: Boris Fishman “Cooking is the only thing in my life that creates the same exalted transport that writing does.” With his new memoir, Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two...
View ArticleEpisode 332 – Christopher Brown
Virtual Memories Show 332: Christopher Brown “If you want to have a healthy society, people need to believe there is justice and accountability for people who do bad things. The problem in this society...
View ArticleEpisode 361 – Dmitry Samarov
Virtual Memories Show 361: Dmitry Samarov “I’ve been very fortunate to have an undying inner need to keep expressing myself, in the face of fairly universal indifference. It just doesn’t discourage me;...
View ArticleEpisode 445 – Heather Cass White
Virtual Memories Show 445: Heather Cass White “I’m sure that my obsessive focus on reading, as much as it is anything else, is a sign of a wound, or a lack.” Author & professor Heather Cass White...
View ArticleEpisode 471 – Glenn Kurtz
Virtual Memories Show 471: Glenn Kurtz “You can show what’s lost by showing how rich some tiny little fragment was.” With Bianca Stigter’s documentary, Three Minutes: A Lengthening, on the festival...
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