Published Work

In the pages column of my professional site I’ve posted a small selection of recently published freelance work.
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The Content of My Life Has No Appendix (Part 2)

The burst appendix didn’t kill me. Nothing seemed all that different to me the first hours after surgery, other than my drugged grogginess and a pinching sensation along my side and the longing to see my wife so she would know I was alive. The operation should have taken no more than an hour. How [...]

The Content of My Life Has No Appendix (Part 1)

I wasn’t quite myself before the operation. Recently I’ve written about how I’ve tried to resurrect my writerly self. For more than a year now my writing life has jackrabbited, at times bounding at a clip, then halting altogether at the edge of the road as if awaiting the uninspiring ghostly hiss of a truck’s [...]

Updated Bio

If you haven’t seen it already, check out my updated bio on the right under About.

Wedding Day

This is a personal post. I was married Dec. 29 and wanted to share wedding pictures.

I am what I am

When I first put this incarnation of Exile on Ninth Street up, I thought of using it as a reading journal of sorts, specifically to record the experience of my 100-novels reading project.
As I’ve posted, though, I’ve also written about other readings, about writing, and occasionally about my personal life. Recently I’ve made posts about [...]

A Freelance Life for Me

Earlier I was reading Elizabeth at Fluent and she had mentioned how she had recently left her full-time reporting job so she could write freelance and have more time to write creatively. A year ago I felt as she did: “I put my whole self into it . . . The problem with my job [...]

The Woman Question

Throughout 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel, Jane Smiley notes what seems an obsessive theme in novels, at least the novels of Europe and America in the 19th and early 20th centuries: What are we to do with women? Against that question she says Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is one of the first novels [...]

Font Change?

Check Chapter 2 of my novel in Pages. I changed the font to Courier New and I’m thinking of using the font for my posts. Feel free to give me feedback.

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

I‘m not afraid of Virginia Woolf. When I first set out on my reading project I put her on the list of novelists I wanted to read, and I’ve finished rereading To the Lighthouse, the first of several novels by Woolf that I hope to read as part of this project.
This novel was the first [...]