Don’t get me wrong: I think reading, responding, and critiquing the work of others is important. It was important to me as an...

Here is the run-down of my reading list for September: The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene – Greene’s masterpiece is both hauntingly...

A long weekend followed by a productive Tuesday and BOOM…here it is, already the 5th of September and I haven’t posted my monthly recap...

Yes, I intentionally provided you with a provocative headline in order to get you to read. Haha! Really though, we are almost half-way...

New York City. We were watching a movie last night, (Man on a Ledge, not that it matters for the purposes of this blog) and it occurred...

Next week, I begin teaching two 6-week classes on writing and as I prepare for the classes, I’ve been reviewing several text books and...

Here’s what I read this month: The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins – Yep. I gave in. The book was better than the movie, but I liked the...

I’m not naturally a person who reads a book multiple times or watches the same movie over and over. There are too many things I haven’t...

Yeah I was a south bound child Yeah I had a small town life But I turned out alright in the north Livin’ that southern kind of life...

I had big plans for the summer. I really did. After I left the May writing residency at Queens University of Charlotte, this is what I...

A year ago, I resurrected my old brand, Ernst Wiley Publications, in order to publish and promote a book about the political and economic...