Winter!

It looks like winter has finally arrived in southern Ohio: snow, wind, low temperatures. I spent yesterday in Columbus Christmas shopping with my wife and then went back out again today. The closer it gets to the 25th, the more worried I become that I haven’t bought enough junk, which, I know, is frigging crazy, but I always play right into the retailers’ hands.
On a happier note, my friend, Kyle Minor, has had a collection of stories and novellas accepted by Dzanc (this deal came about a couple of weeks ago). In the Devil’s Territory will be published in the fall of 2008. What a great title! And I guarantee that the book will be just as good. Kyle is the hardest working writer that I know.
I’m currently reading Edmund White’s new novel, Hotel De Dream, about the last days of Stephen Crane and his efforts to write a novel on his death bed about a syphilitic boy prostitute (NOTE: I’ve only about thirty pages into this, but White does some great things with POV).
Happy Holidays!