My Favorite Reads of 2021
Every year I commit to reading at least 52 books. Last year seemed like a notably great year for novels, and thanks to my local library I managed to read…
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Inside the Book: Stealing Away #9
The stories in my collection may seem a bit diverse, set in places from the Midwest to the Mideast, with plots dramatic and dark to light and reflective, but what…
Inside the Book: Stealing Away #8
Many of us have that urge from time to time to run away from it all. Everywhere I've gone in the world I've found those sorts of people, either hiding…
Inside the Book: Stealing Away #7
When the present doesn't satisfy us, we often either look forward to, or at least hope for, the future (hello, 2020!); or we seek refuge in nostalgia, wistful notions of…
Inside the Book: Stealing Away #6
I had just come back from an overseas teaching assignment and crashed on on a couch on the back porch of a good friend's house for the summer. He had…
Inside the Book: Stealing Away #5
I spent a year teaching in Turkey, and the experience was so amazing for me that I felt compelled to write a book about it: The Yogurt Man Cometh: Tales…
Inside the Book: Stealing Away #4
If 2020 taught me anything it was that staying informed is definitely important, but being glued to the news is not healthy either. "Sorting Things Out" is the story of…
Inside the Book: Stealing Away #3
Pairing Beers with Short Stories The Butcher Boys, the second story in the collection, is one of my personal favorites, partly because the nicer details reminded me of my small-town…
Inside the Book: Stealing Away #2
Pairing Beers with Short Stories Next up, story #12 of 12: "An Inside Job." The narrator is a struggling guitar player whose hopes are pinned on getting a break someday…
Inside the Book: Stealing Away #1
Pairing Beers with Short Stories First up is #1 of 12, "Stealing Away," the title track to the album you can say. Diane, a teenage girl being raised by a…
Pairing Brews & Short Stories
I had a special bottle of barrel-aged beer, and I'd promised a writing buddy that I'd save it until one of us finished our next book. My book Stealing Away…