Oct 1, 2020 | Current Ned Note, Horror, Past Notes
“October Country . . . that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and mid-nights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars,...
Sep 17, 2020 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Poetry
Rosh Hashanah – Sept 18 thru Sept 20 2020 new year. Ned Hayes Rosh Hashanah comes this year on a day of cool wind, a breathtaking portent of winter taking the world, rude lover tossing the sheets away. in autumn the sadness of all things is greatest for...
Sep 10, 2020 | Current Ned Note, On Books, On Writing, Past Notes
I loved reading about Vladimir Nabakov’s writing process… intriguing to see inside the master’s work habits and see how he acted like a magpie and a chaotic creative coming closer and closer to a final story. This process of collection and collation...
Aug 27, 2020 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Theater
“This low-rent Lear raging on his Twitter-heath has proven that the phrase malignant buffoon is not an oxymoron.” — George F. Will, The Washington Post The perfectly satirical story of our age, King Donald is the shockingly prescient story of our time, a...
Aug 23, 2020 | Current Ned Note, Past Notes, Reviews
New Book Review by Dragonfly.Eco: an exploration of eco-fiction The Eagle Tree by Ned Hayes (Little A, 2016) Young adult contemporary fiction Review by Kimberly Christensen To say that fourteen-year-old March Wong loves trees is an understatement. He climbs multiple...
Aug 3, 2020 | Current Ned Note, On Writing, Past Notes, Poetry
Andrew Grace Placing your foot in a bucket of darkness, three miles to home: ostrich farm, oat field pimpled with buttonweed, Rayleigh Scattering dissolved by mist above. Two hours you spent rivering a womb-humid artery for floodwater to pass through & now passage...
