#FridayFive: Books for Senior Year October 20th, 2017 @ 7:01 am PST
Five books to read before you finish high school
#FridayFive: Spenser June 16th, 2017 @ 7:07 am PST
Robert B. Parker’s Perfect Sleuth
On Writing … July 16th, 2014 @ 10:36 am PST
I have no fans. You know what I got? Customers. And customers are your friends. Mickey Spillane
Real Products for Fictional Companies October 17th, 2009 @ 6:20 am PST
The excellent local blog CurbedLA had an entry recently on artist Mark Bennett’s blueprints of fictional places. He has created very detailed floor-plans of famous pretend places, like the homes of George and Jane Jetson, Rob and Laura Petrie, and June and Ward Cleaver. (There’s a book, too!) I thought these were terrific so I […]
VW March 19th, 2002 @ 2:09 pm PST
How lame! Here is a little something I wrote in my senior year of high school. Through the wonders of modern technology, it is now posted here for you to read. I wrote this one day instead of paying attention to Miss Bowman’s English class just to see if a girl named Karin France would […]
At Lunch with Ernest October 25th, 2001 @ 2:48 am PST
At Lunch with Ernest Hemingway is a transcript of an imaginary interview with the author. Sven Birkerts wrote this in 1999 and it is an interesting tale of how Hemingway might view the world – and his influence on it – today.
Sunset March 26th, 2001 @ 7:34 am PST
I wrote this in high school, sometime between 1989 and 1991…