Musings
A buy it, buy it now pick…
Just finished this one, so it wasn’t on my top ten list for the summer, but it certainly would have been if I’d made that list a week later. Hampton Sides is one of my favorite narrative non-fiction writers (Ghost Soldiers is a tremendous book) but his...
Release day, and some music picks…
Well, after a fairly long wait (I finished a draft of this book in summer of 2008!) So Cold the River is finally available today. If you’re into reading, please give it a look. If you have doors that need stopping, please consider it. Very good heft to this...
Picks from the first half of 2010
I try to read at least 100 books each year, but right now I’m a bit behind pace for 2010. Hoping to address that this summer, but I’ve already found plenty of noteworthy titles. Here are some standouts from what I’ve read thus far, books that...
Writing Fuel
After writing up the short post below about Larry McMurtry’s great memoir, I got to thinking about my favorite quotes on writing — there are plenty — and it occurred to me that a fairly common question in interviews is whether I have any quotes...
There’s prolific, and then there’s…
Larry McMurtry. Who, according to his latest memoir, “Literary Life,” wrote the excellent novel “The Last Picture Show” in three weeks, “All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers” in five weeks, and “A Desert Rose” in...