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Sometimes I feel compelled to write things that are, best described, as loosely based in reality. I feel more comfortable including the fantastic or phantasmagoric in my writing, and while I am sure some psychologist can explain why I have these compulsions in greater detail, I consciously do so because it interests me. I’m a pretty logical guy, who sees the universe as one defined and dependent on natural law. Physics, chemistry, etc. But I am also a Romantic at heart, and love that I can violate and undermine these laws in the things I write. Perhaps it was a … Click to read more!

I was pretty set against eBooks when they were first going mainstream a few years back. I’d been clinging to paper since I can first remember, with some of my best memories being late night reads with a musty-smelling paperback or hardcover at my knees. The smell. The feel. The sound of pages turning. I thought such things couldn’t be replaced by electronic devices. My home is decorated with books. A whole wall is bookshelves. I have boxes of books that still hide away in my parents basement because I have no room to store them in my tiny home. … Click to read more!

Sitting on my shelf, full of bookmarks, waiting as the dust slowly rises. . .

• 2666 – Robert Bolaño
• The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman – Laurence Stern
• Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
• My Name is Red – Orhan Pamuk
• What is the What – Dave Eggers
• Moby Dick – Herman Melville

Some of these will be difficult (I am looking at you, Murakami. I like your weirdness, I like your language, but I wish you’d actually come up with a story or at least try to wrangle in the mess you spill out onto paper), but I will finish most of these!  I swear.