Stuff I've Been Reading

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Blood Oranges by John Hawkes

How The Left Lost Teen Spirit by Danny Goldberg

Three Years from Thirty by Mike O'Malley

Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and other stories by Anna Deveare Smith

This summer I have spent over 73 hours driving all about the middle-west (and parts of the south), racking up 4,429 miles in the process. Here's an image to better illustrate where I traversed in my sturdy little volvo ( Read more... )

Here is the revised draft of my latest story

( Now with fewer grammatical faux-pas: )

( Enter at your own risk )

Stuff I've Been Reading: July 2006

The Proud Highway: Letters from a Desperate Southern Gentleman (1955-67) by Hunter S. Thompson

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

I just finished my initial draft of this still untitled story. Here it is:

( The final fifth )

Here's installment number four:

( Numero Cuatro )

And now for the third installment:

( Gotta Love It )

If you read this and think it came out of fucking nowhere, then I think I've done enough for one day:

( Part-Deux )

Well, I have finally invoked the Dionysian muse and have written like banshee from Hades all bloody afternoon. Here is the result, in an easily digestible dose. The drug use in this will get frightening, but currently you can enjoy inner monologues about cereal:

( Untitled Story )