And now, for a little sneak peek from William Murphy’s Trip to the Quiet Room, a novel I hope you’ll be able to read some day. If you happen to be or know a literary agent, I’m more than happy for you to get in touch. Heck, even if you’re not you’re welcome to drop me…
Grantland put together a nice little documentary on the disappearance of the role of the fighter in today’s National Hockey League, starring Paul Bissonnette, Brian McGrattan, and Colton Orr on the fighting end of the stick. All three of those guys put in time in the American Hockey League this year, toiling away while they waited…
If I told you I had a book and you weren’t immediately frightened by that prospect (of me having a book, not me talking to you), which title would make you more likely to read it? [polldaddy poll=”8800013″] Answers on a postcard… or, preferably, sent by picking a button next to your choice above and…
Dennis did a spot for WGBH a little while ago in which he talks a little about his latest book, his connection to Boston, even though he’s now living on the west coast. It’s a short but sweet interview but obviously the part that resonated with me was this: I think you write better when you…
Everyone’s a critic, even the Post Office, it seems: I’ll bet this same thing happened to The Crying of Lot 49, as well, only much, much worse.
Michael Joyce, he of the “no longer maintaining a web presence” fame (oh, and afternoon, a story, and Twilight, a Symphony, The Sonatas of Saint Francis, and Going the Distance, and, and and), once compared my latest novel to Haruki Murakami (“Murakami in Massachusetts,” specifically). Well, I’ve yet to start an agony uncle column/website like Murakami, but…
Brandon Prust, an enforcer for the Habs (boooo), has written an article for The Players’ Tribune with his take on how fighting still fits into the game. As you may know by now, Butterfly, a novel, my novel about an ex-enforcer trying (and failing) to live out his days peacefully, touches on a lot of the…
TLDR: Watch this series of videos if you, like me, are obsessed with the theory of time. Otherwise, read on if you want some history on my early novel-writing efforts and more background on Butterfly, a novel. So a very long time ago I was a graduate from a mostly prestigious college with a degree…
So Butterfly, a novel is about more than just hockey and people beating each other, and ultimately themselves, senseless. It’s also about Old Sturbridge Village, a 19th century New England village. Anybody who grew up in Central Massachusetts in the 80s probably visited the Village three, four, a dozen times on school field trips. Well, if you’re…
The Columbus Dispatch broke Nathan Horton’s story first, but it’s been spread around a few places and added to, most recently by The Hockey News – “Former teammate Marc Savard feels Nathan Horton’s pain.” You can only hope Horton makes the right decision, whatever that might be, but it breaks your heart to see — this…