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There were a few bright spots in this last Bruins season, but one of the brightest, by far, was Liam’s story on E:60. If you have a couple minutes, maybe your kids nearby, I would take the time to watch it. Help Liam #BUMPOUTCANCER, he has his own fund-raising page.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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It’s finally, at long last, happened (I credit the chicken that I sacrificed the other night in a vat of boiling water with onions, carrots, leeks, and more)! I have signed with I.F. Raud Literary Agency LLC, whose illustrious clients include J.K. Rowling, Stephen King, Lenny the Bowler, Dan Brown, and Danielle Steele. Butterfly, a…
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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.
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So excited at the arrival of this at the house the other day: Churning through Owen King‘s excellent Double Feature with the intriguing The Room up next, but Michael’s latest delivery is slotted on the pile. And on the Butterfly front, possibly to be retitled William Murphy’s Trip to the Quiet Room, no news for you,…
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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…
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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…
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NB. Title shamelessly borrowed from Paul Swydan for the Boston Globe. I figured, since I’ve written three (at least) stories about the Red Sox, I had something of a connection and authority to speak on the lineup for the 2015 Red Sox. Especially seeing as each year one of our anthologies (Fenway Fiction, Further Fenway Fiction,…