Dec 21
OPEN Magazine recently ran a short piece about “silent bestsellers.” One of my MFA mates–Anand Mahadevan–was featured. It’s a notable article if only to illustrate the benefit of authors acting in their own best interest, which should be a “duh” statement but is not. To wit:
No matter how much they’d downplay their small efforts to sell their wares, almost all authors admit online networking might have contributed to spreading the word. Anand Mahadevan did that in [...]
More»Dec 20
Yielded this:
So the monster blizzard trod gently. Holliston does that to monsters.
Back to work.
More»Dec 15
Mild winter thus far. A few icy days–especially when walking through BU’s campus wearing a hoodie and fashionable shoes–but my shoulders haven’t yet taken on that hunched-to-ears pose.
Before we start random chatter, a viewer email:
Micah-
Do you write for Jetcomx anymore? What the hell is going on with your head obsession? Quick: who’s on your playlist?
-Neil “Little Man”
Interesting nickname, Neil. I like it.
So yes, I write for Jetcomx, though it’s been a long time since I’ve posted a Throwback Thursdays article. [...]
More»Nov 29
Somewhere in the archives I mentioned the 80’s version of American Gladiators, specifically Malibu’s incredible post-injury interview. And now, in keeping with the holiday season, I will re-gift this interview:
So the semester is almost over, and I’m officially tired of my own critical voice. For years I struggled to quiet that voice, and now it’s been unleashed on my classmates. Does it help? Perhaps. Who can say. We carry so much bias that I wonder if any criticism helps, or [...]
More»Nov 13
Hi Micah-
I can’t listen to your interviews on the Media page. File not found! Also, why are there only two interviews available?
Hope you’re not a Bills fan, still.
TJ
I am a Bills fan, still. Who doesn’t love a perpetual underdog?
As for those interviews, we’re working on a fix. Seems the media files were misplaced. I’ll find ‘em. Why only two? Because the rest weren’t recorded. I did about a dozen interviews during my U.S. tour, and another dozen overseas, and most [...]
More»Nov 6
Harney & Sons makes an excellent iced tea. Rachel picked up a bottle at our local rest stop for gourmands, and I finished the whole thing in one sitting. It may not sound like an endorsement, but I’m not a caffeine guy, and I have this irrational fear of black tea staining my teeth. H&S overcame all hesitations. A perfect blend of tannic bitterness and five grams of sugar will do that.
Yes, I’m still searching for the perfect [...]
More»Oct 30
A double posting? Wha? It’s Halloween. I’m excited. I love scary movies and severed heads.
A few years ago I started obsessing severed heads. Not real ones. The traveling-freakshows-in-a-jar severed heads. Pay a buck and peek behind the curtain; there sits the head of some famous criminal/intrepid explorer, preserved in an old apothecary jar. Bloated face, milky eyes, swirling hair–what’s not to love?
And then we moved to the ‘burbs (okay, maybe Holliston is more rural-chic) and Rachel said it was a [...]
More»Oct 30
And so it’s come to this: some schools want their students to wear certain types of friendlier Halloween costumes–princesses and food items, for example–in lieu of the scary stuff. No crazed axe-wielders, no monsters with fangs and jagged fingernails, etc. No stuff most children like, the stuff they get to wear only once a year and have it miraculously lead to a bag of candy.
The biggest problem I have with this (aside from the creeping sanitization of childhood) [...]
More»Oct 13
In the interest of convenience and self-promotion–always a treat when those two collide–I’m posting a link to my most recent short story, Simulacrum.
For those of you keeping track, Simulacrum was a finalist for Diagram Magazine’s Innovative Fiction Award. Accolades are nice when they come, because they never come often enough.
Onward. We’re switching to a new server–this means more speed and less impatience (theoretically). This should also mean more frequent updates (theoretically). Can I use graduate school as an excuse for the [...]
More»Oct 3
I was expecting more hits but these things happen–you think your pop culture experience will translate across generational borders, and you discover otherwise. I’m referring to my most recent Throwback Thursdays column (found here).
True, the writing isn’t my best, and Swayze isn’t as entertaining as, say, terrible gangster rap lyrics. But Swayze deserves better. Spread the word.
Remember a few months ago, when I was working on that little film treatment? I’ll refresh: an indie producer hired [...]
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