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 23, 2011  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

NEVER HIT SEND, and Other Commandments for the Computer Age


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 17, 2010  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Me and Bobby McGee


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


Mar 19, 2010  |  Posted in Talking to Ghosts

Talking to Ghosts: Page 1


Mar 18, 2010  |  Posted in Talking to Ghosts

Talking to Ghosts: Page 2


Mar 17, 2010  |  Posted in Talking to Ghosts

Talking to Ghosts: Page 3


Mar 16, 2010  |  Posted in Talking to Ghosts

Talking to Ghosts: Page 4


Mar 15, 2010  |  Posted in Talking to Ghosts

Talking to Ghosts: Page 5


Mar 14, 2010  |  Posted in Talking to Ghosts

Talking to Ghosts: Page 6


Mar 13, 2010  |  Posted in Talking to Ghosts

Talking to Ghosts: Page 7


Mar 12, 2010  |  Posted in Talking to Ghosts

Talking to Ghosts: Page 8


Mar 11, 2010  |  Posted in Talking to Ghosts

Talking to Ghosts: Page 9


Mar 10, 2010  |  Posted in Talking to Ghosts

Talking to Ghosts: Page 10


May 16, 2009  |  Posted in Talking to Ghosts

Talking to Ghosts: Page 11


May 16, 2009  |  Posted in Talking to Ghosts

Talking to Ghosts: Page 12


May 16, 2009  |  Posted in Talking to Ghosts

Talking to Ghosts: Page 13


May 16, 2009  |  Posted in Talking to Ghosts

Talking to Ghosts: Page 14


May 16, 2009  |  Posted in Talking to Ghosts

Talking to Ghosts: Page 15


May 16, 2009  |  Posted in Talking to Ghosts

Talking to Ghosts: Page 16


May 16, 2009  |  Posted in Talking to Ghosts

Talking to Ghosts: Page 17


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