What We Talk About When We Talk About Carver

Gordon Lish cut Carver’s stories by as much as 78%. The list of text reductions looks like a Red Tag Clearance Sale in Literary Hell.

Out in Print: Queer Book Reviews

The culture of reading may be diminishing, but it’s far from taking its last breath as long as there are so many publishers, authors, and readers who are queer for queer books.

Review from ‘Out Front Colorado’

“…beautiful, vivid writing appropriate for any season.”

Bearing Witness

Please visit the Out in Print book blog to read my review of Ron J. Suresha’s Revised Edition of Bears on Bears: Interviews and Discussions. This comprehensive volume comes to us through Bear Bones Books, a new imprint of Lethe Press. Ron Suresha is acquisitions and development editor for Bear Bones, which may be just [...]

Celebrating Peter Grahame

I love the work of Peter Grahame, an artist who works from his Ironic Horse Studio in Albuquerque. Much of his artwork has to do with the male image, in all of its many forms. Sometimes his images bear a touch of the magical as well as the realistic. This can be seen in covers [...]

Call for Reviewers

If you have a book review blog, or write for one, please contact me about receiving a free signed copy of A Report from Winter. At a time when mainstream publishing has become just another arm of mainstream media, bloggers and other independent reviewers have taken on the heroic task of helping good books rise [...]

Review: ‘The Rest of Our Lives’ by Dan Stone

When it’s successful, humorous writing looks so effortless that we forget how much effort goes into it. There is a subjective element to humor that makes it very, very difficult to pull off on the page. Is the author as amusing as he thinks he is?   Happily, Dan Stone’s novel The Rest of Our [...]

Kind Words: Scott Heim, Jeff Mann, Malcolm Boyd

I’m extremely grateful to three first-class writers who were kind enough to read the galley of my book and offer comments.