CRAFT TALK
NEW | The Siren Song of Memory (1/25)
Toward Another Shore (10/24)
Embracing Doubt (9/23)
Finding Your Literary Family (9/23)
Reading My Way to a Gay Life (8/16)
Writing and Nostalgia (8/16)
Some Notes on Revision (8/16)
Vetting and Submitting (8/12)
Write What You Don’t Know (8/12)
The Power of Objects (8/12)
Why I Write Short Stories (8/12)
Write What You Don’t Know (8/12)
The Power of Objects (8/12)
Why I Write Short Stories (8/12)
Surviving Kenyon (7/11)
Surviving Kenyon: the prompts (9/23)
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NEWS
Dreaming Home WINNER | 2024 Fred Kerner Prize
2025 year in books | running list of books read this year
PAST YEARS
Dreaming Home shortlisted | 2024 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
2024 in books | 61 titles, mostly fiction (1/25)
2023 in books | 58 titles, mostly fiction (1/24)
2022 year-in-review | writerly things (1/22)
2021 year-in-review | writerly things (12/21)
INTERVIEWS
For Dreaming Home interviews, please click HERE.
Alaska Book Week 23 | Beginning a Literary Career Later in Life. Video, 47 mins. (9/23)
Alaska Book Week 22 | Creating a Literary Anthology. Video, 50 mins (9/22)
Alaska Book Week 21 | On Writing Rescue Stories. Video, 58 mins (10/21)
Words with Writers | Colors of Pride. Audio podcast, 00:33:38 - 1:00:00 (3/22)
Alaska Public Radio | Building Fires in the Snow. Audio, 5 mins
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REVIEWS OF BOOKS & POP CULTURE
FEATURED REVIEWS
Sunday Drive to Gun Club Road | Marion Quednau
Author brings a poet’s eye to collection - Prairie Fire
Stoop City | Kristyn Dunnion
Verbal wizardry makes a thrilling read - Prairie Fire
If We Were Electric: Stories | Patrick Earl Ryan
Serious magic takes Flannery O'Connor Award
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FEATURED REVIEWS
Takeaways from TIFF 2024
From the truly great to the absolute stinkers
Ivan and Misha | Michael Alenyikov
Twin brothers travails resonate in poignant novel
Sightseeing | Andrew Smith
Published stories make for an elegant collection
Alec | William di Canzio
Tales of our forefathers - Plenitude
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MORE REVIEWS
Notes on reading | July 18, 2023
Short takes on recent reading
Thoughts on Amazon’s The Rings of Power
Showrunners Payne and McKay show their qualities.
2022 Toronto International Film Festival
Takeaways from the first in-person TIFF in three years.
100 Boyfriends
Hold on to your hats. This is one wild ride.
Paris Review 239
This is why I love The Paris Review
The 99% Invisible City | Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt
A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
Pop culture reviews | Recent film and TV
Titles featuring a gay spin on the themes of love and family
a ghost in the throat | Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Meld of genres plumbs the lives of two Irish poets
Klara and the Sun | Kazuo Ishiguro
Ishiguro probes the nature of humanity and altruism
Four Lost Cities | Annalee Newitz
Though in ruins, early urban experiments live on
The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin
Classic views Winter with an anthropologist’s eye
Dominick Reading for Filth | Dale Corvino
Ode to New York City in the early aughts
Ploughshares Spring 2021, Vol. 47, No.1
Children wrestle with a mother’s anguish
A Memory of a Murder | Nichelle Seely
A thoughtful, well-written murder mystery
Dear Evelyn | Kathy Page
Novel recounts long, interconnected lives in short stories
The Pier Falls | Mark Haddon
Genre trappings add flavour to literary collection
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MORE REVIEWS
My TIFF 2023 top 5 films
Takeaways from this year’s film fest
Notes on reading | February 23, 2023
Short takes on recent reading
Dune: the Graphic Novel, Book 1 | Abrams Comic Arts
Illustrated version tightens original's baroque story
One Headlight | Matt Caprioli
A love letter to a flawed, but caring family
The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway
Cannibalizing one’s life for art
The Water Diviner & Other Stories | Ruvanee Vilhauer
Quiet stories that consistently astound
McSweeney's 60
Painting by numbers
McSweeney's Quarterly Issue 62
A rollercoaster ride through queerness
The Paris Review Issue 235
To answer the call of the Spirit
The Neapolitan Quartet | Elena Ferrante
A host of fascinating characters, a place and a time
Ellen In Pieces | Caroline Adderson
A funny and perceptive novel in stories
By Nightfall | Michael Cunningham
A funny, penetrating novella by the author of "The Hours"
The Finder: A Novel | Will Ferguson
Entertaining spellbinder by Giller Prize winner
Warlight | Michael Ondaatje
Ondaatje's latest puzzler fails to ignite
Fourteen Stories | Luke B. Goebel
Experimental novel enthralls, confuses
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For a complete list of my reading go to StoryGraph.