I'm the author of the novel The Bee-Loud Glade, and my short fiction appears in various places. I teach at Emerson College, and edit the webjournal Necessary Fiction. This site is a notebook of things I find interesting with occasional updates about publications, upcoming events, and other news.
what the book does then is protect us from the flashing baubles and shiny lights of the beautiful internet vaudeville: that latest email, “friend” request, tweet, jezebel/craigslist/nytimes update… dwelling in the carnival for so long, we tend to forget that there’s another option possible: meadows free of noise.
or if the pastoral gags you: then the book as fortress, a portable monastery keeping aflame the capacity for contemplation in our current digital dark age…