Quoth Og Mandino

"Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious."

My Authorial Debut

The Thrilling Sequel

Come to my Powell’s Books reading!

Just a reminder to mark your calendars: One week from today, on September 16th, at 7 p.m., I will be reading from THE NATIVE STAR at Powell’s Books in Beaverton. There will also be a 19th century trivia contest with prizes! I won’t say what the prizes are precisely, but I can promise you [...]

An embarrassment of bookly riches

Today’s mail brought quite a lovely shower of books, as I got a delivery from Amazon.com and one from PS Publishing. The PS Publishing one contained my contributor’s copies for Postscripts 19, “The Enemy of the Good” and man, are they pretty. Amazing quality binding, paper, art, everything. And I think this is the [...]

Bartelby, the Scrivener

You know what astonishes me? That there are so many “must reads” of literature, that I, a robed and hooded graduate of the University of Oregon’s hallowed English Literature program, have not read. I spent last evening rectifying one of these egregious oversights by reading “Bartelby, the Scrivener” by Herman Melville. I’ve never read [...]