Adjunctivitis An itinerant college instructor on a desperate quest for health insurance. “A laugh-out-loud story.” — This girl I met on Tumblr Available for $2.99 as an Amazon Kindle Single. (£1.99 in the UK). False Economies The romantic (mis)adventures of a young American in Thatcher’s London. “A very funny and poignant little book.”— My […]
This week I am featured on the Chronicle of Higher Ed’s How I Get By series. I kvetch about adjunct life and my hellish commute in Los Angeles. And yet today in New York City, as I was pelted by freezing rain, I was thinking that LA really wasn’t so bad. Regardless I thought […]
Video: “How do peasants die?” On the life and death of Tolstoy, literary giant and crank. Actually this is not intended to be a definitive list and it’s in no particular order, save for number 1, which you should read (or-read) immediately. Seriously. Read it now. I don’t even care if you forget to finish […]
On Adjunctivitis: To be sure a man, who has enough without teaching, will probably not teach; for we would all be idle if we could. On False Economies: It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in the multiplicity of human habitations which are crouded together, that the wonderful immensity of London […]
This is really cool. I heard from Dan Mayer, the talented guy who designed the cover for my first Kindle Single, False Economies. While I am certainly pleased with the one we chose, it was really interesting to see the other iterations and how they evoke different aspects of the story. My favorite is Upside-Down […]
This week The Jewish Daily Forward published my not-so-comprehensive history of Jews and derivatives trading. It’s a fun piece — check it out. But it occurs to me now that there’s a 95% chance the link will end up on some white supremacist website as further “proof” of the Jewish banking conspiracy. I’m only half-joking. […]
I’ve got a 150,000-word novel on my hard drive. It needs another draft, but every time I think about it I feel a little ill. Short works, however, are much less troubling. The first novel I ever wrote was really three novellas about the same character — and I never thought it would see the […]