Sunday, March 20, 2011
This Fog of Ash
I have a little story in Emprise Review #18 that you can check out if you like. The entire issue looks stunning (and the brilliant makeover isn't exactly hard on the eyes either) but right now I'm most into Tres Crow's Stillborn, J.A. Tyler's Kill Yourself (viii), and Foust's Box.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Updates
Writing:
I am now contributing the new literature and culture blog, Plumb, with a host of talented writers like Matt Baker, Matt Briggs, Charles Dodd White, Laura Ellen Scott, Kirby Gann, Sheldon Lee Compton, Lavinia Ludlow, PH Madore, and Cynthia Reeser. It is an interesting crowd to say the least.
Reading:
I've been reading mostly texts on ancient egyptians, primarily their focus on the afterlife and in preserving the physical dead. I've also been focusing my energies on texts about attitudes on death along the millenia and, lately, have begun reading about failed excursions to the arctic. This is all research for my novel-in-progress, The Alligators of Abraham. I'm 32,000 words in, with a second draft of the first 90 pages near complete, and a second draft of the next 54 pages to begin tomorrow. My hope is to finish a fairly solid draft of the novel by June. We shall see.
Of the fiction I've consumed I have to say Lily Hoang's The Evolutionary Revolution is the strongest. This is a book with tremendous structural complexity as well as an emphasis on imagination that I really appreciated. This was the second novel of Hoang's that I've read and, I'll admit, I'm a little anxious to pick up another as soon as possible. Very very talented writer.
I am now contributing the new literature and culture blog, Plumb, with a host of talented writers like Matt Baker, Matt Briggs, Charles Dodd White, Laura Ellen Scott, Kirby Gann, Sheldon Lee Compton, Lavinia Ludlow, PH Madore, and Cynthia Reeser. It is an interesting crowd to say the least.
Reading:
I've been reading mostly texts on ancient egyptians, primarily their focus on the afterlife and in preserving the physical dead. I've also been focusing my energies on texts about attitudes on death along the millenia and, lately, have begun reading about failed excursions to the arctic. This is all research for my novel-in-progress, The Alligators of Abraham. I'm 32,000 words in, with a second draft of the first 90 pages near complete, and a second draft of the next 54 pages to begin tomorrow. My hope is to finish a fairly solid draft of the novel by June. We shall see.
Of the fiction I've consumed I have to say Lily Hoang's The Evolutionary Revolution is the strongest. This is a book with tremendous structural complexity as well as an emphasis on imagination that I really appreciated. This was the second novel of Hoang's that I've read and, I'll admit, I'm a little anxious to pick up another as soon as possible. Very very talented writer.
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