LitReactor Class Filling Fast

Byadmin July 3, 2014July 3, 2014

Over half full. Getting pumped for this. Looking forward to meeting my students.

This is Horror – finally.

ByJSB May 9, 2017

So I’ve been a fan of this show for years – I even wrote about it at Volume 1: Brooklyn and now I’m on it. You want a show that covers craft, art, suffering, conferences, story, inspiration, desperation, awards, missing out on awards, revision, publishing, self-publishing—this is it. Stephen Graham Jones, Paul Tremblay, Angela…

Helen Koukoutsis: “Teaching Mahmoud Darwish…” at Eureka Street

Byadmin February 8, 2011February 8, 2011

Check out this poem by my friend, the poet Helen Koukoutsis. It’s about the great Darwish, yes, but so much more: how trying to teach the unteachable pays the rent and scalds the soul.

New article up at LitReactor: Six Killer Death Scenes

ByJSB April 9, 2016April 9, 2016

in which I talk about Laird Barron, Don DeLillo, Shirley Jackson and others. Here is a taste but you can read more at LitReactor. Image courtesy of LitReactor. When my kids were little we had a family fun game called “Death Scenes.” We’d gather in the back yard or in the playing fields behind our…

Launch of Alan Baxter’s ‘Bound’

ByJSB July 11, 2014

Alan Baxter goes one on one with Margo Lanagan about brain vomit, gargoyle sex and the art of the warrior writer. In addition to buying Alan’s book, I caught up with a bunch of people, and met Margo Lanagan for the first time. “Singing My Sister Down” is possibly one of the great stories of…

Where Writers Write, TNBBB

ByJSB April 13, 2014April 13, 2014

Thanks to Lori Hettler of The Next Best Book Blog for including me in this. The room doesn’t have any windows unless you count the old kitchen window that once probably overlooked a vegetable garden and which now looks into a bathroom the slumlord added on later. We nailed this bulletin board over the window…

Best books of 2018 – LitReactor Staff Pics.

ByJSB January 8, 2019

Best books of 2018? I read very few books last year. I don’t know why I read so little. The ones I did were mainly for work. I read a lot of student work, edited manuscripts for clients and my own. Getting Collision edited and ready for printing took a lot of my time, partly…

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