Archive for July, 2009

Books – Hubert Selby Jr.’s “Last Exit to Brooklyn”

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I really didn’t expect that it’d be so easy to find a book that’s even more depressing, startling, and at times outright uncomfortable than Requiem for a Dream, but all one really has to do is look to Selby’s earlier work, Last [...]

The Blood That Bonds News

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

As some of you may know, but most of you don’t, The Blood That Bonds just spent a year in submission over at St. Martins Press. The editor to whom I had sent it recently got back to me, and they unfortunately won’t be buying the book – the basic gist was “you can certainly [...]

Updates Resuming

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Sorry for the month of no updates! The whole “moving to Indiana and getting settled” thing proved rather complicated and time consuming. In the next week, you can look forward to: a review of Hubery Selby’s “Last Exit to Brooklyn,” a general update on life in Indiana, and an exciting announcement regarding The Blood That [...]