Month: June 2013

June 26, 2013

2013 Reading: The Varieties of Scientific Experience by Carl Sagan

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God by Carl Sagan Our Reading Liberally book club selected this book because…
June 24, 2013

The New Yorker: “Mastiff” by Joyce Carol Oates

July 1, 2013: “Mastiff” by Joyce Carol Oates To begin with, you should read this story, which is available online for free. In my…
June 24, 2013

New Prime Number Magazine Update

Regular readers know that I am the editor of Prime Number Magazine, an online literary quarterly with a print annual edition. Besides our quarterly…
June 21, 2013

Theater: “Romeo & Juliet” at the American Shakespeare Center

            From “feel good” (Anything Goes last night at the Kennedy Center) to “feel lousy” (Romeo & Juliet at…
June 21, 2013

Theater: “Anything Goes”

Now, that’s entertainment. I suppose that was the point back in 1934 when this Cole Porter musical first appeared, and that’s the point now….
June 18, 2013

Emerging Writers: How you can help

I will probably never be a best-selling author. I might not ever be published by one of the big publishing houses. That’s okay. I’d…
June 18, 2013

The Writer’s Handful: Patricia Ann McNair interviews me

I’m honored to have been invited by Patricia Ann McNair to participate in The Writer’s Handful, a series of brief interviews running on her…
June 17, 2013

2013 Reading: Flashes of War by Katey Schultz

Flashes of War by Katey Schultz is a surprisingly good book. I say this even though the author is a friend (we met a couple…
June 17, 2013

The New Yorker: “Stars” by Thomas McGuane

June 24, 2013: “Stars” by Thomas McGuane We learn from the Q&A with Thomas McGuane that this is NOT an excerpt from a novel,…
June 15, 2013

Theater: “Becky Shaw” by Gina Gionfriddo

      My theater binge continues. For tonight’s show, I trekked up to Bethesda–not exactly a hardship, since my hotel is close to…