Jun 6, 2018 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Poetry
Bumblebees Are Made of Ash Martha Silano (@marthasilano in Thrush Literary Journal) The day is a dragonfly hovering in the Timothy. It could rain for months before the sun goes down. An orange buoy bobs while a sparrow sings through a wall. The world smells of cedar,...
Jun 3, 2018 | Current Ned Note, On Books, Past Notes
(received this for Christmas — a couple spoilers inline here) Neil Gaiman’s Marvel 1602 re-creates the Marvel universe as it might have been if it wasn’t born in 1950s America, but instead in Elizabethan England. I found 1602 to embody all the...
May 28, 2018 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes, Poetry
Last spring, I had the pleasure of spending an evening with Charif Shanahan at the AWP conference, when we were both invited readers for a reading sponsored by our publishers. I’m excited that his poem Ligament appeared in The New York Times Magazine in the...
May 22, 2018 | Bookstores, Current Ned Note, Past Notes
Find my books at Next Chapter Books Read more BOOKSTORE POSTS Next Chapter Booksellers is a wonderful little bookstore in St. Paul, Minnesota. In the mid-2000s, I was in Minnesota for graduate school and I worked on the Macalester College campus as a part-time job...
May 15, 2018 | Current Ned Note, Horror, On Writing
Last week, I picked up a book that’s been on my shelf for a long time. This was Different Seasons by Stephen King. This book is a collection of four novellas, and was his first publication that reached outside of the horror genre. The book includes the novellas Apt...
May 9, 2018 | Bookstores, Current Ned Note, Past Notes
Find my books at Ada’s Technical Books Read more BOOKSTORE POSTS In the early 2000s, a blusterous tech guy I knew in Seattle went to work for Amazon. Shortly afterwards, I had coffee with my old friend, and he proceeded to tell me how the future of books...
