So, I’m just going to leave this here, alongside my thanks for writer and poet Christina Butcher for this thoughtful review (and a plug for my chapbooks, too!). Blue Cactus Press How often do you pick up a book from one of your favorite authors and hope and wish and pray it’s as good asContinue reading “Local Book Review: Hagridden by Samuel Snoek-Brown”
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Part 2 – Mark Russell, writer of DC Comics’ Flintstones and Prez – Book Club Discussion
Originally posted on Stargazer Comics, Toys & Games:
– This picks up immediately after Part 1, which can be found here: https://stargazercomics.wordpress.com/2017/04/27/part-1-mark-russell-writer-of-dc-comics-flintstones-and-prez-book-club-discussion/ ST: It seems that, unless people are forced outside of their comfort zone of taking orders and asking about fries, most people don’t actively try to use their “computer.” MR: Well yeah, we…
Denis Johnson told us what he dreamed, and he told us what was real
Last night I went to sleep thinking about Denis Johnson, the news of whose passing was among the last things I read before turning in for the night. This morning, I woke to find everyone else thinking about Denis Johnson, too — many hadn’t seen the news until daybreak. One writer I know shared the newsContinue reading “Denis Johnson told us what he dreamed, and he told us what was real”
Part 1 – Mark Russell, writer of DC Comics’ Flintstones and Prez – Book Club Discussion
Originally posted on Stargazer Comics, Toys & Games:
– Our recording missed a bit of this first question, but this transcript picks up very early in the conversation. – For the sake of not typing a lot of sound effects, imagine that we were all laughing, almost constantly, throughout this talk! ST: Can you tell…
The long-awaited debut from memoirist Jenny Forrester
Next week, my dear friend Jenny Forrester will release her first book, the already-lauded memoir Narrow River, Wide Sky, from Portland’s acclaimed Hawthorne Books. On the Colorado Plateau between slot canyons and rattlesnakes, Jenny Forrester grew up with her mother and brother in a single-wide trailer proudly displaying an American flag. Forrester’s powerfully eloquent storyContinue reading “The long-awaited debut from memoirist Jenny Forrester”
A couple of Southern transplants around the Puget Sound
Last Thursday, I joined novelist Alec Clayton for a reading and book signing at the Timberland Regional Library in Lacey, WA. Alec read a couple of passages from his most recent novel, Tupelo, with a perfectly timed emotional shift: a bit of humor and then a wonderfully nostalgic teenage make-out session that takes a sudden turn at the end intoContinue reading “A couple of Southern transplants around the Puget Sound”
Attic treasures: found poetry
We’re having our roof redone, and today, while the roofers were stripping off the old skin but before they’d had a chance to begin re-plywooding the surface, it began to rain, a light sprinkle through the shiplap of our old house. Most of our attic storage is in plastic bins, but to be safe, IContinue reading “Attic treasures: found poetry”
The music I listen to as I write
As is my wont, I’ve been been listening to music as I work on my current novel, and I’ve begun building a playlist of songs that are either keeping me in the mood of my book or else directly inspiring passages or even whole chapters of my novel. So I thought I’d share some ofContinue reading “The music I listen to as I write”
“It’s a real privilege to have talented friends”
Back in spring of 2015, I was looking for fresh material to bring into my composition classroom, and I happened to have a batch of students who were itching to break out of the essay rut and write in response to some literature. So I shared some widely-anthologized essays and some interesting editorials from major newspapers, butContinue reading ““It’s a real privilege to have talented friends””
The Watchman that Harper Lee set for me
This weekend, I read Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman. I’m not going to revisit the speculation or controversy about its discovery and publication — I’ve written about that elsewhere — except to concede that this does feel like the unpolished draft of a novel, just as most of us expected it would be. ButContinue reading “The Watchman that Harper Lee set for me”
Samuel Snoek-Brown 