FOURTH(S) OF JULY UPDATE
Nothing like those lazy days of summer, right? While I've been busy as ever, I've been slacking off on the updates so here's an overdue update on work that recently went live. But first a note on the photos: they were taken this time last year during a vacation in Ireland. Okay? Okay let's go...
I don't often get a chance to write about sports, so I was delighted to have the opportunity to write something for the lads at Free Darko. While I wouldn't call this piece on Converting Your Significant Other into a Sports Fan an essay per se, I'm not ready accept the label "relationship columnist." Check it out and decide for yourself.
Speaking of relationships, it's usually not a good idea to hack your employer to death with an axe. Of course, it's a bit more forgivable when your employer has shanghaied your ass. Anyway, I wrote a piece of short historical fiction about this conundrum based on a story I read in the National Police Gazette dating back to the late 19th century and the story appears in Dossier, a cool arts and culture magazine out of Brooklyn.
Hollywood is big on remakes; literature not so much. At least until Damion Searl decided to "remake" stories by André Gide, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Yasushi Inoue, Vladimir Nabokov and Tommaso Landolfi. Intrigued? Read the review of Searls's What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going in the Los Angeles Times.
Lastly, a short anecdote about my new favorite work of fiction in translation, Monsieur, by Jean-Philippe Toussaint can be found on the National Book Critics Circle blog Critical Mass.
Enjoy your weekend! Although I wish I was running away to Ireland I'll be spending mine curling up with the new novel from Toussaint, Running Away.