Updates and Updates

Bio: Updated. New semi-confidential writing project: Screenplay for a major studio head, based on a 1980′s bestselling novel. I said I’d never dip my toes into the shark tank again–at least, without thinking long and hard–so I’ve thought long and hard and this time I’m bringing a cage, a spear gun, and a bucket of fresh chum. We’re hoping to get the screenplay finished by late August, just in time for school. At which point I won’t need to be so openly evasive and I can tell you what the screenplay is about. School? What?: This fall I’ll be at Boston University’s esteemed writing program. I remain and will always remain an ardent fan of autodidactism, but it does get old after a while, and a bit lonely, and there’s the whole ignorance paradox…not knowing what you don’t know makes it impossible to fully grasp the extent of one’s ignorance. Plus I’ll be teaching creative writing, and posting the lesson plans here, and who knows where that will lead. For those of you who missed the latest issue of The Bellingham Review (you can still purchase a copy and read some fantastic short fiction, and I’m not even talking about my own story) my Tobias Wolff Award finalist short The Love Life of Tigers will be making its web debut at the end of this month. Stay tuned.