Monthly Archives: May 2006

Ian Freeman, 17, has spent a lot of time alone in his living room lately, singing, spinning, and twirling in a conservative black tuxedo emboldened with a red velvet cummerbund and a matching red string tie. Is this a young … Continue reading →

Hey, kids, if you want to make your mom really happy this Mother’s Day, flush a carton of her cigarettes down the toilet. Actually, don’t. I once did and I lived to regret it. Instead, flush the cigarettes down one … Continue reading →

First there was James Frey and “A Million Little Fibs — er, Pieces.” Then we learned that young male novelist JT Leroy is not in reality an HIV-positive former teenage truck-stop prostitute and drug addict who turned his nightmarish childhood … Continue reading →

“I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.” – Vladimir Nabokov I am now at the stage where I am (finally) done rewriting my next novel. Hence this entry … Continue reading →