Haven’t been posting lately, too busy being busy and important, as my wife would say. The only way I’m going to keep posting here is if I start to ignore the fact that what I’m posting is mindless muck at the bottom of my brain, so let’s hop to it. I spent all day Saturday …
I’m proud to announce that my lovely wife and Rattle‘s assistant editor Megan O’Reilly Green’s chapbook, The Beaded Curtain, is now available for preorder from Spire Press. We don’t have any cover shots or blurbs yet — frankly, we’re surprised to learn that it’s coming out in June(?); we were thinking it’d probably be the …
The best teacher I ever had died yesterday. 66, cancer. He was a legend in our little suburb, the kind of teacher that teenagers tell their younger siblings stories about, and then those siblings grow up and realize that all of the stories are actually true. If he caught you with a cheat sheet, he’d …
Really brief as-promised follow-up to “The Gender Question.” I spent the weekend doing the layout for the summer issue, so our contributors are now finalized. The count: 46 men, 40 women = 46.7%F Still leaning male, but Rattle #31 is more female than our 45% ten-issue-average, and we’ve bucked the disturbing trend of Gender Climate …
That’s how long I lasted. I wanted to try writing a post every weekday, and I could barely keep it up for half a month. Megan always talks about trying to set attainable goals, and I think I did a bad job. How do the real bloggers do it? Don’t you get tired? Don’t you …