New Site Design
It's long been time for this site to get a facelift. Well, now it has one. I've not only changed some of the formatting and colors (yes, I'm fond of purples; it's my site, it will have lots of purple!), but also taken advantage of Blogger's new Pages feature, familiar to anybody who's used Wordpress. The pages are listed up there beneath the site header. The About and Fiction pages are self-explanatory, but the Selections page probably needs a few words of introduction. For a couple years now, I've wanted to put together a collection of the nonfiction I've written over the last seven years or so (since a piece of mine about George Saunders appeared in English Journal in May 2003), but I've struggled to come up with a book-length manuscript that is more than just a collection of miscellanea. I could easily put together a collection just of my writings on science fiction, or on film, or general book reviews, or extended essays on writers su...