My longest sentence
For some reason I’m struggling to get some work done on my new novel and Hope Hicks resigned yesterday and Jared Kushner’s security clearance was downgraded, gosh darn… Read more »
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Friendly_Rejections.com
Dear Writer or Writer Manqué: Friendly Rejections Inc. is proud to announce a brand new service for writers who are darned sick and tired of waiting weeks or… Read more »
The Truth About St. Valentine
Saint Valentine (in latin, Sellus Mondo Flowerus) is a widely publicized third-century Roman busy-body cursed by millions on February 14 and associated since the High Middle Ages (so… Read more »
Recommended by OPRAH!!!
Oprah would love it. She really would. She’d almost certainly recommend my crispy new novel to her 17 billion fans and maybe even slap that little round stamp… Read more »
Pedantic Grumpery Be Gone! (for a minute)
OK, I complain a lot. I criticize. I tend to notice what’s wrong—with movies, books, ideas, with plans, structures, phones, bicycles, sentences (at least other people’s), computers, people,… Read more »
The Grammys (Just Like a Penis)
I tried to watch the second half of Grammys last week. I have a no excuse for this behavior other than the fact that I was preparing for… Read more »
Facebook vs The Novel
I don’t suppose it’s news to anyone currently residing on Earth that there are people, hordes of the loony little buggers, who spend hours every week on Facebook…. Read more »
ABC World Internet Feed Tonight
When a bright, inquisitive eleven-year-old looks at you in befuddlement and asks, “How is that news,” you know something is amiss. But that’s what’s been happening virtually every… Read more »
No Year’s Resolutions
Because I’ve always been certain I would fail to follow through, and because I find the entire concept as irritating as a sandpaper codpiece (I gave mine away… Read more »
Kneed eye same oar? (literary fiction explained)
Litter airy fick shin is some of that stuff where you half to go to the dicshinery and look up stuff and stuff. Theyre’s like, no good guys… Read more »
Ways of Leaving
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Chase Stoller is a beautifully mangled all-American mess. Jarrett’s ability to paint a picture of the tedium of small town America, and then to drop a character into this (Hannah) that’s right out of a Wyeth painting, well that sealed the deal for me. With pitch perfect dialogue and writing that felt like a perfect Indian summer day, "Ways Of Leaving" was that rare book that when I read the last word on the last page…I went back to page 1 and read it all over again.