Essays on craft, classics and fiction
Journal
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The man who liked to save the world
There once was a man who liked to save the world. Know the type? The sort who stops for stranded drivers on the freeway when everybody else assumes a tow…
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AI at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2026
At the Frankfurt Book Fair this year, AI is no longer the elephant in the room. Writers are. The Frankfurt Book Fair, or Buchmesse as Germans fondly call it, is…
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If clichés could kill
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”124880″] Stop Writing What Everyone Else Has Already Written There’s a particular kind of sentence that slips past both writer and reader without resistance. It does its job,…
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As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”146480″] Will AI make writers extinct? William Faulkner helps me answer that question. There are three questions I’m asked repeatedly these days: when my next novel will be…
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A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Why A Farewell to Arms Still Hits Hard in 2025: Hemingway’s Legacy for a New Generation The first time you pick up A Farewell to Arms, you might not know…
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Street Diplomat
Chapter One Seventeen thousand migrants rescued from certain death at sea. Check. More than eight thousand underage girls freed from sexual slavery. Been there, done that. Three human trafficking cartels…