Thanks to my publisher, I was able to have dinner last night at a nice restaurant in Cincinnati with a group of incredibly smart and super nice (funny, too!) booksellers from Joseph-Beth and Davis-Kidd. These people know and love books, Lord, I can tell you that, and I sat there wishing I was even half… Continue Reading
Author Archives: drpollock
Twilight
I just finished William Gay’s Twilight, a novel which would make a damn good movie, though there’s no way film could convey the power of the man’s language. He writes some downright incredible sentences, paragraphs, chapters, books. Twilight is for any fan of Southern Gothic, crime fiction, or serious literature. One of the other things… Continue Reading
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,… Continue Reading
Grading Papers & Dawn Powell
I’ve spent the weekend grading final papers in my 110 class and wishing that I was finishing Dawn Powell’s My Home is Far Away, a novel I started the other day. If you haven’t read Powell, I urge you to begin. Start right now. Today. She’s frigging awesome. My Home is Far Away, published in,… Continue Reading
My First Review
The first review of my book, Knockemstiff, comes out tomorrow, 11-19-07, in Publishers Weekly. My agent’s already sent me a copy of it, so I’m past the nervous, getting sick, stage. All in all, it’s a pretty good review. I know there will be some bad ones in the next couple of months, but it… Continue Reading