"A fast-paced, suspenseful dystopian picaresque, part Huck Finn and part bizarro-world Swiss Family Robinson..."
---Kirkus
Long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and finalist for the Crawford Award. Title short story listed for the 2000 O. Henry award.
One thing that growing up entails is learning that one, twice, three times in your life you will experience some passion–jealousy, love, lust, hate, grief–to the point where you lose it. If you happen to be in public, it doesn’t matter. You may collapse beside the park path and lie there five hours, unable to [...]
Sat, February 28 2009 » Polis » No Comments
This is what his response reminded me of…you just have to substitute “tax” with “tax cut”:
Wed, February 25 2009 » Polis » No Comments
Rich Horton had nice things to say about David Schwartz’s The Sun Inside, published by our Rabid Transit Press.
And you can too, after you buy it and read it! It has dinosaurs, a journey to the center of the earth, poignant and bittersweet commentary on the Iraq War, and much more.
Tue, February 24 2009 » Rabid Transit Press » No Comments
Well, as this blog whips up into shape again, it’s been an interesting experience reassembling it. For one, I actually managed to add my Twitter feed to my blog here. For the last month or so I have been posting the equivalent of “weird minute details” to the Twitter…and there always seemed to be a [...]
Wed, February 18 2009 » Meta/Logistics » No Comments
I’ve finally upgraded my wordpress! So please excuse the mess as I get things into shape.
(the rss feed–except for bloglines–still doesn’t seem to work…phhhtt)
Sat, February 14 2009 » Meta/Logistics » No Comments
This should be an interesting experiment. I’ve just set up a Twitter feed for my 165 page speculative poem The Stations (which is free and available as a PDF download, and has a pretty open Creative Commons license).
It’s entirely possible that the poem might make more “sense” being tweeted, in passages, than a straight [...]
Sun, February 1 2009 » Poetry, Uncategorized » No Comments
