NEWS

NEW | Dreaming Home WINNER | 2024 Fred Kerner Prize

Dreaming Home shortlisted | 2024 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
2024 year in books | running list of books read this year

PAST YEARS
2023 year in books | books read in 2023 (12/30)
2022 year-end review of writerly things (1/22)
2021 year-end review of writerly things (12/21)
My debut novel to be published by Biblioasis (9/21)

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

2023 year in books
Goodreads list of books read in 2023

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

The Prophets | Robert Jones Jr.
Prettiness muffles this important story’s impact

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

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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 by 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

The Pier Falls | Mark Haddon
Genre trappings add flavour to literary collection

For a complete list of my reading go to GoodReads.

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