So I had a nice little email exchange yesterday with an editor from Long-Established Small Press. Mr. Editor (as opposed to Ms. Editor from Well-Respected University Press) expressed interest in getting a book of fiction from me, most likely a collection of stories. He would prefer it to
So I've been sticking fairly close to one of those trendy new-fangled low-carb diets for the last month or so. I started out at 220. (That's lbs, not kg, kiddies.) Yesterday I was 202, and although this morning I was hovering at about 203.
As a former Children's Television Workshopper, I'm delighted by anything that goofs on Sesame Street. So I was enraptured to discover the entry for double bucky in "The New Hacker's Dictionary," containing as it does a parody of the classic Ernie number
Oh, by the way, I got word Friday that Ms. Editor's editorial director at Well-Regarded University Press has read Missionary Man and likes it. They've sent the book to their legal department for a read-through, with some minor worries about whether there's
After several delays, the anthology Beyond the Last Star: Stories from the Next Beginning is finally printed and shipping (or so I am given to understand, since my copies haven't actually arrived yet). You will find my story "The Diagnostic Feast" in this fine volume, as
Did you ever see the old Utah license plates that said, "Ski Utah! Greatest Snow on Earth"? Well, try this on for size: A clever reader of my site sent me the concept and let me create the design. Get your "Flee Utah" merchandise before the
CNN: Montana Libertarian Senate candidate is blue
Well, Ms. Editor did not get her presentation together in time to put Missionary Man on the agenda at last week's editorial meeting. Her next opportunity will be October 15th—which means two more weeks of waiting on tenterhooks before we get some vague sense of the book&
TOMORROW'S WEATHER THUNDERSTORMS WINDY CHRIS FARLEY
So I walked over to the Manhattan Mall on my lunch break today, to pick up a copy of the new Beck CD. I was on my way back, on 34th Street between Fifth and Madison, when I heard a voice yelling off to my right in the street: "
Dear Bill, I am sorry about this whole billboard thing. Actually, I have not been sending a lot of what I get on to you. I have just been in the habit of forwarding to "Big Family", a group in my address book, and sometimes I still do
Dear Mom— I'm reluctant to ask this, but I would appreciate it if you didn't forward religiously themed emails to me anymore. It's probably something I should have asked a long time ago, but it's not material I care to read, and
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