I recently did an interview with Literary Mayhem , mostly about the goals and directions for Uninvited Books. If you're not familiar with it, it's an interesting site, worth checking out. “The kids I grew up with were sneaking drinks and shooting up pretty much through their teens. Me too, but I was...

George Ricker wrote:I have a strong preference for science fiction. But I must qualify that by saying I enjoy reading any well-crafted fiction. And I do like a good mystery from time to time.

George

Exactly. It has to be excellent or I can't even begin to enjoy it. High standards are a curse!

It's not a candidate for the greatest American novel, from an artistic standpoint, in my opinion. But it still could be the most important. A perfect summation. Thank you. I think it's become fashionable to scorn Clemens -- he doesn't deserve that (any more than he deserved his previous deification.)

Sex. With a minor in Drugs.

(Now you've gone and made me all nostalgic.)

Well, they are in fact foul-mouthed aggressive bullies! Thanks, that was great. Totally cracked me up. I've always been extremely fond of mockingbirds, but, yes, they are total brats. Is anyone familiar with the Harper Lee's bio? Fascinating woman. But such tragedy! All those years she spent workin...

I have a website and would like to offer an author to be a guest blogger or to be the focus of one of our featured posts. Looks like we've got a lot of talent here. Cool. That always makes things stimulating. Could you tell us something about your site? Maybe post a link so we can visit it? In the ...

Such an amazing story. (Kind of Kate Chopin meets M. R. James.) I actually got to use it in an anthology I edited recently, pairing it with Oliver Onions' THE BECKONING FAIR ONE, which has always struck me as the other side of the coin. What's the quote from Jung? Something about "unconscious c...

I get that. I admired the book more than I actually enjoyed it.

Good points.

(I think I may need something a little lighter next. Maybe the new Maupin ...)

I'm currently deeply ensnared by Andrew Davidson's strange, intense novel THE GARGOYLE. I don't know that I've ever quite read anything like it before ... which is not something I say lightly.