My story, “A Healing Place,” is out in the April 2010 edition of The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature.

The recent health care “debate” had both the blue team AND the red team stooping to lows of hysteria and vitriol, getting Americans riled up rather than taking advantage of an opportunity for understanding and education.

Though you should be familiar with Beowulf, the 8th century Anglo-Saxon heroic epic that has influenced Western thought and storytelling for centuries, you’ve probably never read John Gardner’s Grendel–it’s Beowulf from Grendel’s perspective.

The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton, is a book that modern readers will perhaps find hard to appreciate.

I just got word that a short story I wrote got accepted to The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature Journal.

All the Pretty Horses is the second book by Cormac McCarthy book I’ve read, and this author’s prose is like poetry.