After the fiasco with the stampeding herd of chevrotains, Ishmael returned to his room at the Pequod.

Motel Run Like a Whaling Ship
The light flickered the way bad motel room lighting stereotypically does. Ishmael Barz pulled a slab …
After the fiasco with the stampeding herd of chevrotains, Ishmael returned to his room at the Pequod.

Motel Run Like a Whaling Ship
The light flickered the way bad motel room lighting stereotypically does. Ishmael Barz pulled a slab …

All the Starring Characters in Lost
You may think that I haven’t blogged in a while, but you’d be wrong. Actually, I’ve blogged plenty. Unfortunately, those entries were virtual blog posts—virtual in the quantum sense, not in the Lawnmower Man…
I decided to try a novel approach to a book reviews, and write a review of the reviews of the book before I have completed reading the book. Why would I do that? Do a Google search on “book reviews …
Some novels are rumored to be too dense, arcane, or pretentious to be read in their entirety. Those sorts of novels are my specialty, and I have been emboldened to complete five such novels from beginning to end.
100 Years …
The Italo Calvino novel, If on a winter’s night a traveler, opened me up to a completely different type of story-telling. First, the story is written in the second person point of view. You know the second person, that point …