Contemplating Dylan
My friend James Lee Stern took this portrait. Thanks, Jimmy Lee.
Author Archive
My professor Jesse Hill Ford wrote this novel
It’s called THE RAIDER and he was working on it while he taught me English literature at the University of Rochester. I hope to carry on the tradition with my literary career.
Reading my professor Jesse Hill Ford’s book THE RAIDER
I took a literature class from Jesse at the University of Rochester during my senior year and it really impacted my decision to become a writer. He was working on THE RAIDER while he was teaching us. Jesse is a lot like Faulkner or Flannery O’Connor. He’s one of the greats. Some of Jesse’s other books, and a book about him, lie on the table.
New portrait from David Hume Kennerly.
THE ART OF HUMMINGBIRD GARDENING
Even though I’ve moved on to writing novels and short stories, this book is very close to me. I had a chance to have it reprinted with new photographs and I really am proud of it. It should have won an award, but that wasn’t meant to be. Still, for a how-to, it has its literary merit as a memoir as well.
With my mother and Hemingway’s short stories
Mom (at right) was an English major in college and we had bookshelves of classics in our house when I was a kid. I guess something rubbed off on me. Now, about to have my first novel published (The Martin Luther King Mitzvah, from Fitzroy Books in 2018), I look back on my early days of reading the great master Hemingway. Maybe some of his talent rubbed of on me as well. I hope so.
