Ropes of Sand

For some reason, when it finally occurred to me to post about these exciting new developments in contemporary fiction on our now-down-to-thr...

Dear all, Horrified that this has prompted my return to the blog, but guess what? Iowa wants to put MFA theses on the Web.... for free. Read...

In continuing my never-ending quest for world domination... Tracy and I are proud to announce the birth of Colette. Full name is Colette Car...

Ever feel down? Maybe Jim Hynes will make you happy. He's started a nice new blog called Cultwriter , which I discovered after discover...

I don't know what happened, but I decided to post on the blog today. And it's going to be about the possibility that Tess Gallagher,...

So, my dear ropers, where are you? What are you doing? This back to school time of year has me nostalgic for noon beers with Mullins and Bog...

A certain Stansel makes his fancy magazine debut in the summer issue of the Antioch Review . His story "All We Have" will break yo...

At a film festival in Athens, Ohio, I saw a short competition film on graphic artist Jeffrey Brown , which prompted me to buy one of his boo...

So I was on my way back to Denver from a fishing trip near Casper, WY, yesterday. We stopped in at a gas station somewhere between Nowhere a...

Dear all, There is a big picture --a two-page spread--of the Hamburg Inn in the latest New Yorker. It is not labeled as such, but that is wh...