May 17, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A Poet Addresses the Graduates: Guest Post by Wesley McNair



May 16, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Luck and Pluck and WTF (Revisited)



May 15, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

NEVER HIT SEND, and Other Commandments for the Computer Age



May 14, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Movies

Movie Night: Marley. Bob, not the Dog.



May 13, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Me and Bobby McGee: Happy Mother’s Day



May 12, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Haiku with Wild Violets



May 11, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Life in the Hate State



May 10, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

The Writer Games: An Interview with Dinty W. Moore



May 9, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Dive Like an Osprey!



May 7, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Best Writing Program in the Country!



May 6, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

THE REAL AVENGERS



May 5, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Clappers



May 4, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bill and Dave’s Greatest Hits



May 3, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Sweet Sixteen! Here They are…the Best Writin’ Schools in the Country



May 2, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Make Like Shakespeare, or at Least Spalding Gray



May 1, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Give Up All Hope: The Machines Have Won, and You Have Become Your Computer’s Slave



Apr 28, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Spring Goodies



Apr 26, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The MFA Tournament: Help Crown the Best Writing School in the Country (Vote Early and Often)



Apr 25, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday All-Star Guest Post: Whistle While You Wait



Apr 24, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Is It Safe to Eat the Fish? And Other Questions Two Years After the Spill



Apr 23, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Movies, Reading Under the Influence

The Hunger Games, Movie and Book. Is this for kids?



Apr 22, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Music from Big Pink



Apr 21, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Getting Outside Saturday: A (Little) Nature Essay in Film



Apr 20, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Happy Anniversary BP! The Oil Spill Two Years Later



Apr 19, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics, Getting Outside, Movies

A Night at the Movies: “The Island President”



Apr 18, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Give Yourself the Gift of a Writing Week



Apr 17, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

My Kindle Nook



Apr 16, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

“A Prize I Won By Not Doing Something”



Apr 14, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Costa Rican Critters



Apr 13, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Ira Sukrungruang Comes to Maine



Apr 12, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

One on One: Larry Bird vs. John D’Agata



Apr 12, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Henry and Me (In 3-D and High Def): A Cartoon Essay



Apr 11, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Decision Time, MFA



Apr 10, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Georgia Review Wins It All!



Apr 10, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Emma, by Jane Austen, Poolside, With Crocodiles



Apr 9, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Spend a Week Writing in Vermont at Wildbranch (as close as we get to an ad)



Apr 8, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Empty Nest Syndrome



Apr 7, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica



Apr 6, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Finals are Set: Battle of the Reviews!



Apr 6, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Memories of the Lit Mag Sweet Sixteen



Apr 5, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Final Four Lit Mag Update



Apr 4, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday:The Art of the Disclaimer



Apr 3, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Final Four Literary Magazines



Apr 2, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Things You Never Hear Writing Teachers Say



Mar 30, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Getting Outside Saturday: Wren Cam–Day 5



Mar 28, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Truth in Nonfiction But Were Afraid to Ask: A Bad Advice Cartoon Essay



Mar 27, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Has Spring Sprung Early?



Mar 26, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Wren Cam: Day 2



Mar 24, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside, Our Best American Essays

Getting Outside Saturday: “Scioto Blues”



Mar 23, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Wren in the Writing Shack III.



Mar 22, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Nothing But the Truth!……Or Maybe Not…..



Mar 20, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Guest Contributor Joshua Bodwell



Mar 19, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside, Our Best American Essays

Vernal Equinox



Mar 17, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Learning the Island



Mar 16, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Where’s Billdo?



Mar 15, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Happy (Pagan) Birthday to Me!



Mar 14, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Revel in Creation



Mar 12, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bill and Dave Enter the D’Agata Storm



Mar 11, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Dummy Downhill



Mar 10, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Ice Out



Mar 9, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Edith Pearlman Wins! (And so do small presses!)



Mar 8, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Dave’s Random Doodle Day



Mar 7, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Take a Circuit



Mar 6, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Reading Under the Influence: Joan Didion



Mar 5, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

David Byrne Meets Ned Ryerson



Mar 4, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside, Movies

R.I.P. Mighty Waddles: A First-Class Rooster



Mar 3, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Live Report From AWP…….



Mar 1, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Our Best American Essays, Reading Under the Influence

SUMMERS WITH JULIET is Twenty



Feb 29, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Be Like Nixon!



Feb 28, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Table for Two: An Interview with Michael Martone



Feb 27, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

On the Netting and Tagging of Babies



Feb 26, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Oscar Degrees of Separation



Feb 25, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Getting Outside Saturday: Some Recent Journal Pages…A Mystery Solved



Feb 23, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Trouble in Happy Valley: Penn State, Joe Paterno, and the Art of Fracking



Feb 22, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Beginnings



Feb 20, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Rare Mystery Bird Identified



Feb 20, 2012  |  Posted in Our Best American Essays

A Letter to a Neighbor



Feb 19, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside, Our Best American Essays

Our Best American Essays: Shitdiggers, Mudflats, and the Worm Men of Maine



Feb 18, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: It’s All About Ice



Feb 17, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Dave’s Jungle Adventure! (Really!)



Feb 16, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Rock Lit 101 (or: Rock and Roll for English Majors)



Feb 15, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Beware to Com-PARE!



Feb 14, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Skiing the Beach (Redux?)



Feb 13, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Hostages



Feb 12, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Things I Saw in New York



Feb 11, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Our Best American Essays

Getting Outside Saturday: Field Notes on My Daughter



Feb 10, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Movies

Movie Night: “Pina: A Movie for Pina Bausch”



Feb 8, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: The Thisness of a That



Feb 7, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Losers



Feb 6, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Ghosts of Rocky Flats



Feb 4, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Winter Color



Feb 3, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A Few More Ballads



Feb 1, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday, Superbowl Edition: VINCE WILFORK, C’EST MOI



Jan 31, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Game Ball! (Superbowl Teaser before tomorrow’s Bad Advice, Superbowl Edition)



Jan 30, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Henry Miller’s Commandments



Jan 29, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Don’t Let it Bring You Down



Jan 28, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Ballad of Rocky Flats



Jan 27, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Put Your Best Photo Forward



Jan 26, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Our Best American Essays

Ultimate Glory



Jan 25, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: The Memory Game



Jan 24, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

How the Gingrich Stole Christmas



Jan 23, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Read Local!



Jan 20, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics

Letter to my Representative by Lia Purpura



Jan 19, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Reviewing My Reviewers: Part II



Jan 18, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Jack Yourself Up! (Through Rituals)



Jan 16, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Little Sweep



Jan 15, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Ball



Jan 14, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

AFTER THE GAME…



Jan 13, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Jerry



Jan 11, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday (Creative Nonfiction: What Kind of Roast Chicken IS This, Anyway?)



Jan 10, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Missy and Me



Jan 9, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Why Portland, Oregon, is the Coolest Literary City in the West



Jan 7, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Where’s Bildo?



Jan 4, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Spend a Week with Bill and Dave



Jan 1, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Happy New Year from Bill and Dave’s



Dec 30, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Back on the Cape: An Elemental Interlude



Dec 28, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

10 Bad New Year’s Resolutions for Writers (Bad Advice Wednesday: The Holiday Edition)



Dec 24, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Merry Christmas!



Dec 23, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Mapping the Night Trees



Dec 23, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside, Our Best American Essays

Winter Solstice



Dec 21, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Writer, Edit Thyself!



Dec 20, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Audubon Christmas Bird Count 2011-2012



Dec 16, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

My Wind Journey



Dec 14, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Don’t be Stupid



Dec 11, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Table for Two: an Interview with Maureen Stanton



Dec 10, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Cover Me (Part III)



Dec 9, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Cover Me (Part II)



Dec 8, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

My Amazon Revenge: Reviewing my Reviewer



Dec 7, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: A List From John Lane



Dec 6, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Keep Hope Alive (In the South No Less)



Dec 3, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics

Chester Greenwood Day: Our Parade



Dec 1, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Poker with Nelson Algren



Nov 30, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Do Something for Someone Else (30 Ideas for Writers)



Nov 29, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Maps and the Mind



Nov 26, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Seven Good Things About Fall



Nov 24, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Point of View, or Happy Thanksgiving from NYC



Nov 23, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Turn the Page



Nov 22, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Americature



Nov 21, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside, Reading Under the Influence

Visual Haiku



Nov 20, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Mr. Hopeless Redux



Nov 19, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Beyond Flipper



Nov 16, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Memoir, Don’t Do It!



Nov 15, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

The Top 10 Sexiest Nature Writers in History



Nov 13, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics, Getting Outside

Big Wind



Nov 11, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Why Thoreau Wouldn’t Drive a Prius



Nov 11, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Our Best American Essays

Learning to Surf



Nov 8, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Be Your Own Willy! Give Yourself a Minimum Word Count



Nov 6, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Furthur in Portland, Maine



Nov 3, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Random Doodle Day: Sketches From My Journal



Nov 2, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: The Annotated Table of Contents



Nov 1, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Our Big Year



Oct 30, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

What Bloody Man is That? (a review of “Sleep no More”)



Oct 26, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wed: Accept Your Small Self; Strive to be Larger



Oct 25, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Are You a Megalomaniac? A Quiz For Writers



Oct 24, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Our Best American Short Stories

Harbinger Hall



Oct 21, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Captain Memoir Vs. Agent Man (Part III of Bill and Dave Comics)



Oct 20, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Reason 363 Why Mitt Romney Should not be President



Oct 19, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: The Journey Years



Oct 18, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Meaning of Lance



Oct 15, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Table for Two: An Interview with Lea Graham



Oct 15, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Our Best American Essays

Classic Bill: “Into Woods”



Oct 13, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Part Two of the Cartoon Adventures of Bill and Dave: The Perils of Blurb Hunting



Oct 12, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Don’t Write Scenes!



Oct 10, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Table for Two: An Interview with Patricia Henley



Oct 6, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Cartoon Adventures of Bill and Dave



Oct 5, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Just Write



Oct 4, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Confessions of a Nature Writer



Sep 30, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Green Headed Jelly Babies and Other Fruiting Bodies: Mushroom Day at Bill and Dave’s



Sep 28, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Really Bad Advice Wednesday: Accept Being Poor!



Sep 26, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Table for Two: An Interview with John Clayton



Sep 25, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Boletus Edulis?



Sep 23, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Movies

Movie Time! The Tarball Trailer…..



Sep 21, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour, Movies

Bad Advice Wednesday Live!



Sep 19, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Nabucco in HD: Opera Too Close for Illusion



Sep 16, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Can Anderson Come out and Play?



Sep 15, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

From Blog to Book



Sep 14, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour, Movies

Bad Advice Wednesday: Take Your Work to the Movies



Sep 12, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Big Reed Forest Reserve



Sep 8, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

The Author Photo



Sep 7, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Kill Your Internet, or, Writing in the Time of Harrison Bergeron



Sep 5, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Profusion



Aug 30, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Take a Workshop



Aug 30, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Topsail Island: A Photo Essay



Aug 27, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Gold



Aug 26, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

The Perils of Irene: Will the Shack Survive?



Aug 24, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Break Your Book Out Into the World



Aug 23, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics

Obamas and Ospreys: A Vacation Tip



Aug 21, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics

Obama’s Summer Reading: A Look Inside



Aug 18, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics

My Presidential Address: Obama and I go one on one….



Aug 16, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: The Character Files



Aug 12, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

A Moonlight Paddle



Aug 11, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

We Are Not Alone: The Other Bill and Daves’



Aug 10, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Keep a Writing Chart



Aug 8, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Our Best American Short Stories

Blues Machine



Aug 5, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

If Hemingway Wrote Portnoy’s Complaint



Aug 3, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Start a Writers Group?



Jul 31, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Our Best American Short Stories

Investigation



Jul 30, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Elvis Costello at the State



Jul 27, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Take Down your 10,000 Hours



Jul 26, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A Sad Ending, or at Least Compost



Jul 25, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Wuthering



Jul 21, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday (Thursday Edition): Take a Break



Jul 19, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Spock Twins: The Death of the Death of Environmentalism



Jul 18, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics

Health Insurance and the Independent Writer



Jul 16, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Our Best American Essays

Royal Visitor



Jul 13, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Don’t Write in THE FUTURE



Jul 11, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Marsh Man: The Trailer for My Green Manifesto



Jul 10, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Scraps from The Cutting Room Floor



Jul 8, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Myth of Dan (The River Man)



Jul 6, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Wednesday is Bad Advice Day at Bill and Daves: The Cutting Principle



Jul 5, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A New Music



Jul 1, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Candling



Jun 29, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Lose the Suitcase!



Jun 26, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Reviewing The New Yorker’s Summer Reading Issue: Two Thumbs Up, both Mine



Jun 26, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Return of Mr. Hopeless



Jun 24, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Crash and Burn: Bill and Dave come Back From the Brink



Jun 22, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Wednesday is Bad Advice Day: Getting Started (Fiction Edition)



Jun 21, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Mr. Hopeless



Jun 18, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

The Incremental Method



Jun 17, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

My Father’s Voice



Jun 15, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Tough Guys Keep Journals (And You Should Too)



Jun 10, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Incubator



Jun 8, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Why Not Say What Happened?



Jun 7, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

I Love You: Three Thoughts on Love



Jun 4, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

It’s Thank Your Editor Day at Bill and Dave’s!



Jun 1, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Wednesday is Bad Advice Day: How to Get on a Roll, or, The Value of Momentum



May 31, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Cover Me



May 30, 2011  |  Posted in Reading Under the Influence

A Few Pictures from my visit to Henry Beston’s beach with John Hay



May 28, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Another Night at the Opera



May 26, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Poster Biz Part II: Attack on Reagan’s Head



May 25, 2011  |  Posted in Reading Under the Influence



May 25, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Wednesday is Bad Advice Day: Finding Time to Write



May 20, 2011  |  Posted in Reading Under the Influence

Twelve Random Reading Observations



May 19, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Our Mutual Brain Damage (Special Guest Star: Clyde Edgerton)



May 18, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Wednesday is Bad Advice Day: Rejection as Biofuel, or, Showing the Bastards



May 17, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Facebook Etiquette? Or: Bill and Dave’s is Starting a Fan Page (Hit “Like”!)



May 16, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Sure, Nature, But Not Too Much Nature, Please: On Snakes, Toads, Birds and Poets



May 14, 2011  |  Posted in Reading Under the Influence

“Just Kids” by Patti Smith



May 13, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Caution: End of the World



May 13, 2011  |  Posted in Reading Under the Influence

Shack Reading



May 12, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Self-Promotion Blues, or, Me and Jessica Lange



May 11, 2011  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Wednesday is Bad Advice Day: this week, The Secret of Getting Published (and your letters answered)



May 10, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Whose Woods These Are: A Public Letter to Our New Chancellor



May 9, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics

Bill and Dave’s Kochtail Hour



May 6, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Writing About Real People (and their Houses)



May 4, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Farewell, My Lovely



Apr 29, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Gessner on Mailer (and others)



Apr 27, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Trickle Down Theory



Apr 24, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Three Wishes



Apr 22, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Happy Earth Day



Apr 20, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

April Fools



Apr 16, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Apes of God



Apr 11, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Sidekicks



Apr 5, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Happy (Oily) Anniversary



Mar 28, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The High Side (an announcement)



Mar 22, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Building the Shack



Mar 16, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, I Used to Play in Bands

I Used to Play in Bands is Back: Spinal Fusion Edition



Mar 10, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A Good Luck Gannet Day (Check out Gannet video below)



Mar 4, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Ergonomics



Feb 28, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A Tribute to John Hay (1915–2011)



Feb 24, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

And the Oscar for Revision Goes to….



Feb 17, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Our Favorite Story



Feb 10, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Late Night Cable, or, Tales of Recuperation



Feb 6, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

For the Love of Work, or,Tea with Melville



Jan 31, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Learn to Type in Ten Days: Neck, Part III



Jan 28, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Wormtown: The Fate of Man



Jan 24, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

More from the Short Story Unit



Jan 21, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Occupational Hazards



Jan 18, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Making Of…(A Happy Story)



Jan 12, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

GET WELL SOON, BILL



Jan 7, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

On the Road–Again



Jan 4, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Churchill Wit



Dec 31, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

100 Ways to Celebrate Amateur’s Night



Dec 23, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Junger Envy: A Perfect, Rank Place



Dec 21, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Southern Drivers



Dec 14, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Lance Link, Secret Chimp



Dec 7, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Adventures of Mr. Id–Part VI



Dec 1, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Reference Season



Nov 26, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Adventures of Mr. Id–part 5



Nov 21, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Our Best American Short Stories

Thanksgiving



Nov 15, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Adventures of Mr. Id–part 4



Nov 11, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Border Patrol



Nov 7, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Adventures of Mr. Id–part 3



Nov 3, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Cowboy Words



Oct 31, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Adventures of Mr. Id–part 2



Oct 28, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Ab of Steel



Oct 22, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Adventures of Mr. Id–Part 1



Oct 20, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A Night at the Opera



Oct 15, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Ballad of Ed and Sally (All Dogs by Hadley Gessner)



Oct 11, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Corn Maze



Oct 8, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Attack of the Cashier



Oct 6, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Home and Cocktails



Oct 4, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Checking in With You, Gentle Dave



Oct 1, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Checking in With you, Dear Reader



Sep 26, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Odd Jobs #1: The Things A Writer Must Do (…an occasional series)



Sep 20, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Hair Thing



Sep 15, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

My Danish Blood



Sep 13, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Writing End of Life Stories



Sep 8, 2010  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Goodbye to All That



Sep 3, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Kid of the Year



Aug 31, 2010  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Three and a half years later…



Aug 27, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Convocation! (With Ospreys…not seahawks)



Aug 26, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Two Hungry Davids



Aug 23, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Summer Reading: A Confession



Aug 19, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Day 12: Limping Homeward



Aug 16, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Ktaadn



Aug 12, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Day 11: Atlantis



Aug 9, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

That’s Entertainment!



Aug 5, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Day 10: Beyond the Oiled Pelcian



Aug 3, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Reunion Season



Jul 30, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Day 9: Field Notes from an EPA Meeting



Jul 28, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Day 8: The River



Jul 26, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

First Class



Jul 23, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Day 7: Castles and Shanties



Jul 21, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Day 6: The Green Sun Rises



Jul 19, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Katmai Air



Jul 16, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Day 5: Ecotones and Barriers



Jul 15, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Day 4: Of Forms and Fishermen, or, The British Are Coming/Here



Jul 13, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Day Three: A Dawn Walk



Jul 10, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

McBride’s



Jul 8, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Day 2: Corexit, Ospreys, and The Tarball Wars



Jul 7, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Day 1: Baptism at Tarball Beach



Jul 5, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Kachemak Bay



Jul 1, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Sarcasm (wink, wink), or, Maybe Small Presses are Doomed too.



Jun 29, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Over Packed



Jun 25, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A Graphic Novel Tournament



Jun 23, 2010  |  Posted in Reading Under the Influence

Drive Yourself Crazy with Thomas Wolfe



Jun 23, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Now for Some Old Time Nature Writing…The Oyster and the Oil



Jun 22, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Why I’m Going to the Gulf



Jun 17, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The House That We Built: A Nursery Rhyme For the Gulf



Jun 15, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

My Week at Nature (Writing) Camp (New, Improved Edition)



Jun 13, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bill’s last known post from Kachemak Bay (Happy Solstice!)



Jun 11, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Rise of the Machines: Notes on the Literary Apocalypse



Jun 8, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Stopping Titan



Jun 7, 2010  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

On the Banks of the River Ose



Jun 4, 2010  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

PROPOSING (“Will you…”)



Jun 2, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Acceptable Lies and the Ghost of James Frey, (or, Against the Lit of Fact III)



May 30, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Fact of Literature (Part Two: Bill’s Take)



May 28, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Against a Literature of Fact (Part I. Dave’s Take.)



May 26, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A Goodbye to Porn



May 24, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Message in a Bottle



May 17, 2010  |  Posted in Reading Under the Influence

Johnson-mania!



May 17, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Cartoons (Minimal Reading Required)



May 16, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Make My Day



May 12, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A No-Hitter on Acid



May 10, 2010  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Land of Giants!



May 6, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bird People



May 3, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

In and Out of the Audience



Apr 28, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Jonathan Franzen and the Great Swamp Warbler



Apr 25, 2010  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

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Apr 21, 2010  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

We are all poets now



Apr 18, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Luck and Pluck and WTF



Apr 8, 2010  |  Posted in Reading Under the Influence

Reading Under the Influence



Apr 6, 2010  |  Posted in Reading Under the Influence

The Humbling



Apr 6, 2010  |  Posted in Reading Under the Influence

The Anthologist



Apr 6, 2010  |  Posted in Reading Under the Influence

Wolf Hall



Apr 6, 2010  |  Posted in Reading Under the Influence

The Wives of Henry VIII



Apr 6, 2010  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Beginning Is Terrifying Business



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