“A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” by Flannery O’Connor, is a difficult story to talk about. On the one hand it is full of everything that good literature students love to chew on. There’s small-town America, class boundaries, racism, facades, and an underlying question of just what it means to … Continue reading
J. D. Salinger is easily the author who has had the largest impact on me as a writer. Which is strange to say as I haven’t read his stuff in a long time. And it’s also odd that it wasn’t Catcher in the Rye that first turned me onto him. … Continue reading
Knife Fight by David Nickle is a short story that I first heard on the Pseudopod Podcast last year. You can still find it there, narrated by the awesome Dave Robison, whose voice should be in your head for every pulp reading from now until the end of time. Nickle … Continue reading
“The Sea and Little Fishes” by Terry Pratchett was published in 1998. By then, Pratchett’s writing had matured from his early explorations, but it was still before the spectre of Alzheimer’s reared its ugly head and sucked away some of his effortless genius. Terry Pratchett didn’t write many short stories. Some … Continue reading
