Archive for August, 2008
Kill Devil Hills
Just got back from writing in a place called Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. Based on all the Confederate flags I saw in this Outer Banks beach town, the devil is not completely dead. I left some banana peels on his front porch. On the road back to DC and then Brooklyn for the book [...]
the downsides of growth
When I started out as an editor, one of my favourite things was to finish my ‘working day’ and then settle down to read the unsolicited manuscripts we had received during the day. Conscious of my own frustrations as a writer, rarely hearing back from editors when I sent work out (sometimes even when my [...]
