Peter Darbyshire

An excerpt from a long interview I did with Peter Darbyshire is now up at my new site.

Jason Pettus

My interview with Jason Pettus of CCLaP is now up at my new site.

Eclectica

The new issue of Eclectica is now online. I have a poem in it, entitled "Baram 1." More on this magazine later.

Jennifer Barnes - reprise

My updated with Jennifer Barnes is now at my new blog.

Truth Marathon

Another excerpt from my screenplay-novel TRUTH MARATHON is now up at my new site.

Gavin Grant - reprise

My new interview with Gavin Grant is now up at CBT's new site.

Noteworthy

Deanna McFadden on the ongoing profitability of print publishing.

Levi Asher contra egoism.

Steven Beattie on horror as film and horror as act.

My latest excerpt from The Business Army.

Your Internet at Work

From SearchLit.org

Invisible Man, The Start Reading Novel  | List of Chapters | Supplementary Links Novel Title: Invisible Man, The  (click here)  Scan to Start Reading Summary: First published in 1952, Invisible Man revealed the pain of a black man's existence in a white world. It was shocking then, but remains important literature today. It is the story of a young man's journey--through the Deep South to the streets of Harlem, through events and experiences that range from tortured to macabre. As he moves through time, he learns about the black world, the white world, and a world of his own. His passage is a frightening but at the same time enlightening pilgrimage, for the Invisible Man and for all of us. (Source: Library Thing ) Author: Wells, H. G. (view author links) Subject: Thriller Word Count: 49,634 Reading Level: 6.90 (view readability test) Age: 12 to 13 Grade Levels: 7 to 12+ Year of Pub: 1897  (View on Timeline) See eTexts with the Same:  Author | Grade | Subject

Upcoming - Gavin Grant interview update

One of the interviews at this site that's proved especially popular is the one I did with Gavin Grant of Small Beer Press. Grant recently updated the interview, and I'm going to post it at my new site when I get a few technical glitches worked out. Look forward to it.

National Libraries in comparison

Nigel Beale has an interesting ongoing series comparing the national libraries of various countries with the National Library and Archives in Ottawa. He makes a compelling argument that the library in Ottawa could do more to promote books and reading; you can follow the series here.

Contra Staid de Vivre

I'm re-posting my screenplay fiction, "Baram Writer", at my new blog. This was originally published in the literary magazine Dark Sky, and by the time it had appeared, I'd submitted it to so many journals that I'd lost count. The screenplay form of the piece seemed to be a sticking point; that, and the technical issue of making the photos appear correctly in the piece.

Neither of these were insurmountable obstacles. In fact, they should have been minor ones, since all my material was digital. Nevertheless, the response I usually encountered was a variation on "interesting ... but not for us."

This reaction -- a form of conservatism, really, a set way of doing things -- is at one and the same time common in English Canadian publishing and also something of a stereotype. (Canadians themselves are the ones who tend to beat themselves up on this issue; no one else much cares.) My experience is that conservatism has become pervasive throughout the world of publishing -- even avant gardism has adopted set forms. But the idea in anglo Canadian letters that conservatism is a characteristic that is particularly prevalent in the national culture is one that won't go away. Obviously, I don't quite agree -- or rather, agree with misgivings. Nevertheless, it would do Canadian letters well to have this debate take place a little more energetically than it does at present. And for Americans, too, it seems to me that some more consistency of debate would help bring needed clarity to this matter; after all, the "digital revolution" -- with all its variants of e-ness -- is at best a double-edged sword. Literary people generally need to start thinking of new ways to make narrative fiction work.

The Business Army - 2

The second excerpt from my novel THE BUSINESS ARMY is now up at this blog's new site.