2017-01-16 13:54
I write because there is some lie I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. But I could not do the work of writing a bo… Read More
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Author Alan Thompson's new novel, set at the University of Oxford, is called The Black Owls.
2016-12-19 20:42
More on the runaway cursor:
Best Buys was packed–it was a Saturday, eight days before Christmas. I parked in a far corner and joined the throng. Somehow, I found the mouses… Read More
2016-12-17 22:38
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been slow when it comes to adapting my writing to the available technology. I was into my third novel before I could write and edit solely on… Read More
2016-12-08 17:49
I’ve been away from these pages for several months, a combination of promoting The Onyx Unicorn, website revisions and laziness. I’ve also begun a new book.
The Onyx U… Read More
2016-08-16 15:31
For the past couple of months I’ve been very busy with the publishing process for A Hollow Cup and finishing the first draft of The Onyx Unicorn. The revised editi… Read More
2016-05-29 17:54
I’ve said many times that ideas are as important to a novel as setting, characters and plot. The books I’ve written so far, except for one, take on large ideas–elitis… Read More
2016-05-24 01:13
“The phantasy, then, which the detective story addict indulges in is the phantasy of being restored to the Garden of Eden, to a state of innocence, where he may know love as love and n… Read More
2016-05-10 15:24
The revised edition of A Hollow Cup is finished. It will go to the publisher next week. As I’ve mentioned in this space before, I considered changing the title bu… Read More
2016-04-20 15:44
You can’t get at the truth by writing history; only the novelist can do that–Gerald Brenan, British travel writer and novelist
My formal education–elementary school, high s… Read More
2016-03-16 19:25
I’ve neglected this blog for the past month, but I haven’t been idle. I’m now well into what used to be called Death In Monte Carlo. It’s now entitle… Read More
2016-02-15 18:25
Final revisions to Juvenal’s Lament: A Political Fable are now underway. I expect it to be available at all the usual places by April 15 (a significant day of the year… Read More
2016-02-02 19:44
“Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.”–Sir Arthur Eddington
The Associated… Read More
2016-01-14 21:58
“‘We call them dead words,’ said a middle school teacher in Costa Mesa, California. She and many others strive to purge pupils’ compositions of words deemed vag… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I wrote my first novel, A Hollow Cup, in 2008. My hometown–Chapel Hill, NC–was disappearing (they all do), and I wanted to preserve it. A Hollow Cup wa… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
“There is no science to it, or even art. It’s a business of hunches.”–Bill Clegg, author of Did You Ever Have A Family, quoted in The Wall Street… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Life will go on. Machines will grow smarter, human beings gradually dumber. Round the world the vast majority might possibly feel that something grand is missing, though they sha… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I see no reason why the decay of culture should not proceed much further, and why we may not even anticipate a period, of some duration, of which it will be possible to say that it will have… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
“Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”–Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1927 “Recognize that the worth of human life varies.”–Peter Singer, 2000 A writer… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
“Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.”–Boris Pasternak A book called… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Several months ago I wrote a post called “The Summer Reading List” in which I suggested that agenda promotion in required reading was unlikely to generate much interest from its… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about a new manuscript I began at the first of the year. It goes in fits and starts, but the past few days have been unusually productive. The word count is a… Read More
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