The Writing Life

  Ghost update: There’s been another sighting in the Thomas Wolfe room! More soon! In the meantime… Author James Boyd believed that the role of the artist in society included “the [...]

  I’ve tried lights on, doors locked and lights on, doors unlocked. Then lights off, doors, locked and the next night—lights off, doors unlocked. I’ve tried night songs and day songs; even a [...]

I came home from Chicago, after spending money like a fool, to discover a letter in my mailbox stating that I no longer have my job. I will not go back to the Coffeehouse next week for the start [...]

F196. Flash Fast Sudden Fiction and the Short Story. (Ed Falco, Jayne Anne Phillips, John Dufresne, Steve Almond) The authors on this panel agreed unanimously that they don’t care what a [...]

I’ve been emailing back and forth a bit with Pacific University’s beloved JfD, fiction writer and teacher extraordinaire. He write me yesterday that a woman walked up to him in a bar last night—a [...]