David Hume Kennerly took some photographs of me and then showed me the results in his iPhone. First, looking over the photographs. Then the one I picked for this post. Thanks to James Lee Stern for taking the photograph of David and myself.
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.
My friend James Lee Stern took this portrait. Thanks, Jimmy Lee.
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.
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.
