Review of The Comet's Tail

My wife's amazing memoir, The Comet's Tail, was reviewed recently by New Pages. Check it out.

Embodied Effigies

Check out my short memoir piece, "Fool's Gold, Ocean City," in issue 7 of Embodied Effigies. Upon re-reading, I am very pleased with this!

Article in Zip 06

Check out the very extensive article by Pem McNerny in Zip06, the Shore News conglomerate. She does a great job reviewing and giving examples of Connecticut Vanguards. Come see me at RJ Julia this coming Wednesday.

Article in the Newtown Bee

Check out the article in the latest Newtown Bee on my wife Amy Nawrocki's amazing memoir of her coma, The Comet's Tail.

Article in the Connecticut Post on Town Greens

Excited to have an article on Town Greens appear in the Connecticut Post this weekend. Here is the web version.

Article in the Fairfield County Papers

Huge article in the Hersam Acorn Papers of Connecticut today on Connecticut Vanguards by Brad Durrell. Very exciting!

Review in the Waterbury Republican

Alan Bisbort of the Waterbury Republican American reviews Connecticut Vanguards here.

The Comet's Tail is about to be released

Is it weird that I'm more excited about my wife's imminent book release than two of my own?

Review of Father and Son by Edmund Gosse

Check out my latest article on Berfrois, "The Crux of Our Sundering," about Edmund Gosse's touching memoir of his father.

Dick Allen Passes Away

Amy and I were saddened to find out that our friend and fellow Connecticut author, Dick Allen, has passed away. I feel privileged to have known him. His poem, "On the New Haven Line," is one of my top ten favorites of all time. Find it in Garnet Poems, or elsewhere.

The Sweet (and Sour) History of Connecticut Pork

Check out our latest article in Edible Nutmeg.

Review of Trout Fishing in America

Check out my latest review of Richard Brautigan's lost classic up at Empty Mirror Books. 

Review of John Fowles's A Maggot

My review of John Fowles's novel A Maggot is up at Berfrois. He is one of my favorite authors, but I don't let him get away with the sleight-of-hand he pulls in his last novel.

The Anthology of Babel Is On Its Way

"Why should there only be literary scholarship about authors who actually lived, and texts which exist? Where are the articles on Enoch Campion, Linus Withold, Zelda Calhoun, Redondo Panza, Darshan Singh, or Heidi B. Morton? That none of these are real authors should be no impediment to interpreting their invented writings. In the first collection of its kind, The Anthology of Babel publishes academic articles by scholars on authors, books, and movements that are completely invented. Blurring the lines between scholarship and creative writing, The Anthology of Babel inaugurates a completely new literary genre perfectly attuned to the era we live in, a project evocative of Jorge-Louis Borges, Umberto Eco, and Italo Calvino."

Look for this amazing anthology (and my essay/story in it) forthcoming Summer 2018 from Punctum Books. Linus Withold (mentioned above) is my boy.

Connecticut Book Awards

I was honored to be a finalist for the 2017 Connecticut Book Awards, and to attend the ceremony at the Mark Twain House. It was great to meet the other authors and the hard working judges from Connecticut Humanities.

Finalists for Fiction: Wally Lamb, Robert Patton (winner), Susan Rashid, and Eric Lehman.

The Slow History of Hasty Pudding

Amy and I have another article in the autumn issue of Edible Nutmeg, continuing our column Ark of Taste. It is called "The Slow History of Hasty Pudding," and you can read it here.

I recently wrote about Joel Barlow's poem "Hasty Pudding" in another article, on Berfrois. Catch it here.

Life and the Arts

Read the first essay in my new column for The Wayfarer, Life and the Arts.

"Engage in the arts. Begin to be. Become."

Connecticut Book Award Finalist

Shadows of Paris is a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award! I am up against some real competition, though, including best-selling author Wally Lamb. So, fingers crossed for the award ceremony on October 22.

American Consumer

I have a new piece up on Berfrois: "Natural Products of Consumer Society: Serial Killers in Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho." Check it out here.

Wine on My Mind

Just drank a bottle of Priam Vineyard's rose, and recalled this local television show Amy and I did when we were promoting our book A History of Connecticut Wine. It's great to know that the state's wine industry is booming, and that we had some small part in promoting and recording its rise.