Month: March 2020

March 30, 2020

2020 Reading–March

This was a big month for reading, which should come as no surprise as I, like a lot of people, have been spending a…
March 30, 2020

“The Learned Lama”–an excerpt from House of the Ancients and Other Stories

House of the Ancients and Other Stories, my forthcoming story collection (now available for pre-order from the publisher, Press 53), comprises 23 short stories…
March 29, 2020

Shakespeare on stage, and in your living room: BlkfrsTV

When I was looking for a place to relocate from Washington DC in 2000-01, I visited Staunton, Virginia, a small town in the Shenandoah…
March 25, 2020

Splendid Isolation

I certainly do not want to make light of the present crisis. So many people are sick and so many others are hurting because…
March 22, 2020

Stories of Displacement: Fiction, Far from Home

A couple of days ago, I should have been seated before a large crowd of book lovers at the James Madison Regional Library in…
March 18, 2020

Virginia Festival of the Book Virtual Panel: Writing the Anthropocene

The Virginia Festival of the Book is an annual event that takes place in and around Charlottesville, VA. The 2020 edition was to have…
March 13, 2020

Interview with Chris Register

Chris Register is a Charlottesville, VA writer I bump into from time to time at writing events. We discovered that we have some things…
March 10, 2020

Virginia Festival of the Book is Canceled

Under any circumstances, I would have been disappointed to learn that the Virginia Festival of the Book had been canceled. (I just received an…
March 1, 2020

Book Tour: North Carolina

A few months ago I realized I would have a window of opportunity in February to do a swing through North Carolina to promote…
March 1, 2020

2020 Reading–February

Only five books finished this month, but, hey, it’s a short month, even with Leap Day! Friend by Paek Nam-nyung is a curiosity, at…