Jan 19, 2023  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Mark Spitzer


Dec 30, 2022  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Writers for the Wild: Five Days in May


Mar 9, 2021  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Lots of Writing Advice Crammed in One Place


Dec 10, 2020  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A Daunting Time: 13 UNCW students on being the Class of December, 2020


Sep 10, 2020  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

FIRE


Aug 31, 2020  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

T.R. vs. Trump: A Cartoon Essay


Aug 9, 2020  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Trump vs. TR: The Big Fight


Aug 2, 2020  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Shack as Metaphor


Aug 1, 2020  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Talking with Teddy


Jun 13, 2020  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Deep


Jun 6, 2020  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Ed and Wally in New York


Feb 18, 2020  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Going back into retirement


Feb 18, 2020  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Death and Rebirth: An Essay in Pictures


Feb 5, 2020  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bill and Dave’s: Back From the Dead


Jun 23, 2018  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Onward to the Sea! (And Back to Boulder)


Jun 2, 2018  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Into the Badlands


May 30, 2018  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Rough Beauty by Karen Auvinen


Mar 13, 2018  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Mueller Time


Jan 27, 2018  |  Posted in bad advice

On a Roll: The Value of Momentum


Dec 12, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Just a Thought….


Dec 4, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Fighting for Bears Ears: The Freedom of Restraint


Nov 30, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Meditating with Labs


Nov 16, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Father Throws Best


Nov 9, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

HAPPY TRUMPIVERSARY


Oct 27, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

My Summer of Ultimate–a Wrap-Up


Sep 17, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “My Absolute Darling,” by Gabriel Tallent


Aug 31, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Soldiers in Boots, Girls in Lakes: Bill Talks with David Abrams


Jun 27, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Our Best American Short Stories


Jun 25, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Audio, Audio!


Jun 14, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “Augustown,” by Kei Miller


Jun 3, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

New Book Tour Coming: Sartorial Advice Appreciated


May 28, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Brian Doyle (1956-2017) and His Head Full of Swirling Dreams


May 28, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

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


May 27, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A Sit Down Chat with Bill and Dave


May 18, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Here’s the Book Trailer for Ultimate Glory!


May 11, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Goodbye to an Old Friend


May 7, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Losing Brandy


May 2, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Blurb Begging


Apr 19, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns

A Rant from Mike Branch!


Apr 13, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Before I Go External….


Mar 28, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics

Bill and His Family Keep Their Health Insurance, at Least for Now


Mar 1, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “One Eyed Man,” by Ron Currie


Feb 1, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside, Guest Columns, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “The Peregrine,” by J.A. Baker


Jan 22, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics

My Inaugural Poem


Jan 20, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

OFF TO WASHINGTON FOR THE MARCH


Jan 18, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics

The Other Inaugural Ball!


Jan 12, 2017  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Finally, a Victory!


Dec 29, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Selling the House


Dec 16, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A State of Insanity


Dec 15, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Imagine how angry he would have been if he had lost…..


Dec 15, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Goodbye to Sundance


Dec 12, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Let’s Go On Strike on January 20th!


Dec 8, 2016  |  Posted in Guest Columns, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “Avid Reader,” by Robert Gottlieb


Dec 7, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Forgotten Moments in History


Dec 5, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Final Four Follow Up: Gessner vs. Plimpton, The Lost Footage


Dec 4, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Things You Never Hear Writing Teachers Say


Nov 30, 2016  |  Posted in bad advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Wally Stegner Chimes In


Nov 15, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Current Liberal Fantasy


Nov 9, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Maybe we Shouldn’t Have Used Those Russian Voting Machines


Nov 7, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “Everybody’s Fool” by Richard Russo


Nov 6, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Last Trump Blasts


Oct 18, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “Unknown Caller,” by Debra Spark


Oct 11, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Stop Me Before I Trump Again


Oct 3, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “Hillbilly Elegy,” by J.D. Vance


Sep 28, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

In the Trump Mines


Sep 27, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Babe Ruth of Debating


Sep 23, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Statue of Trumpery


Sep 14, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Adventures of Naked Trump–Day 1


Sep 13, 2016  |  Posted in Bad Advice, bad advice, Guest Columns

Lundgren’s Lounge meets Bad Advice Wednesday: Do Your Summer Reading this Fall


Sep 7, 2016  |  Posted in Bad Advice, bad advice, Movies

Bad Advice Wednesday: Start your Writing Machine!


Sep 3, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Nature Good. Screens Bad.


Aug 29, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Loser


Aug 26, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Many (Well, four) Moods of Donald Trump


Aug 25, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Happy Birthday to the National Park Service


Aug 24, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Green Eggs and Trump


Aug 22, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Trump at Walden


Aug 22, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bill and Dave Jump on the Naked Trump Bandwagon


Aug 19, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Dave TV


Aug 13, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Ventriloquist Days: A Memoir


Jun 30, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

On the Road with Noah


Jun 22, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Twain’s End


Jun 6, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Taming of the Wild


May 24, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Braving It


May 21, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Podcasts, Table For Two: Interviews

Lewis Robinson’s “Talk Shop” Podcast, with Yours Truly, Bill Roorbach


May 15, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Table For Two: Interviews

Table for Two: An Interview with Mira Ptacin


Apr 27, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Ocracoke


Apr 23, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Wild Ways


Apr 13, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Big Sur!


Apr 12, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “Stop Here, This is the Place,” by Susan Conley and Winky Lewis


Mar 31, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Immortal Freemasonry Explained


Mar 30, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Donald Trump’s Secret Diary. Entry1.


Mar 28, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Publication Day: Where’s my Marching Band?


Mar 25, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “Innocents and Others,” by Dana Spiotta


Mar 11, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Table for Two: Debora Black talks with Steve Almond about Football, Hate Mail, Life, and Art


Mar 9, 2016  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Don’t Believe What You Think


Mar 7, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “The Ancient Minstrel,” by Jim Harrison


Mar 2, 2016  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Avoid Literary Postpartum Depression


Feb 24, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Paperback Writer


Feb 16, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Please Give to the Jason Bradford Memorial Fund!


Feb 11, 2016  |  Posted in Cartoons

Another Story: Three Writers Come Back from the Dead to Discuss Malheur


Jan 30, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Sunday Sermon

Anxious Bode Loves Paris (Despite Anxious Times)


Jan 29, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates


Jan 28, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Dave’s first poem


Jan 27, 2016  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Need a Job? Be a Writer First (from the archives)


Jan 26, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Book Writin’ Time


Jan 22, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Table for Two: An Interview with Jeff Thomson, Poet and Memoirist


Jan 18, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Table For Two: Interviews

Table for Two: An Interview with Julianna Baggott


Jan 5, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Table For Two: Interviews

Table for Two–An Interview with Philip Lopate


Jan 1, 2016  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Tree Hugger Dave on Nat Geo’s Born to be Wild


Dec 23, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

All the Wild That Remains: A Year End Report


Dec 18, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

George Sheehan on Being a Writer-Athlete


Dec 9, 2015  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns

Bad Advice Wednesday: Fifteen Things for When the World is Shitty and Terrifying


Dec 7, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Santa


Nov 23, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “City on Fire,” by Garth Risk Hallberg


Nov 23, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bill and Dave’s Live at Space Gallery in Portland


Nov 18, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Get Thrown Out of Libraries


Nov 16, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Why Wildness Matters


Nov 13, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Reading Under the Influence

“At Sea,” an excerpt from SUPERSTORM, by Kathryn Miles


Nov 11, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: This is Your Life, Harriet Chance, by Jonathan Evison


Nov 6, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Our Best American Essays

The Meal of a Lifetime


Nov 4, 2015  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Walk a Mile in their Shoes


Nov 1, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Movies, Sunday Sermon

What is Perfect? This Short Film by a Couple of Awesome Teens, That’s What!


Oct 28, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Great Minds, Little Minds


Oct 24, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside, Photo Haiku

Getting Outside Saturday: Fall Color (a photo haiku)


Oct 21, 2015  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour, Movies

Bad Advice Wednesday: Make Your Own Work


Oct 13, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Rachel’s War: A Cartoon Essay on Rachel Carson’s Last Years


Oct 10, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “The Narrow Road,” by Richard Flanagan


Oct 7, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Celebrate! (Or How I Won the U.S. Open)


Oct 1, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Save the Shack!


Sep 28, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns

Anxious Bode Tries Out at the Comedy Cellar


Sep 25, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

OBITS


Sep 21, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “How to Cook a Moose,” by Kate Christensen


Sep 15, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Table for Two: An Interview with Nina de Gramont on Publication Day


Sep 13, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Last September


Sep 9, 2015  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: One Sentence on Getting Back to Work, September Style


Sep 8, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Confessions From the Shack #2


Sep 7, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Letting the Delta Die to Save It


Sep 3, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Guy at the Bar, Reading Under the Influence

Guy at the Bar: Vince Passaro on Harold Brodkey, Gordon Lish, and Pat Towers, Middle of the Night


Sep 2, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Waiting for an Audience


Sep 1, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Jukebox

Anxious Bode Goes Electric!


Aug 31, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Confessions From the Shack #1


Aug 29, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Guy at the Bar

Guy at the Bar: AWP and Diversity. Does No One Out There Have Any Sense?


Aug 28, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Four Easy Steps to Becoming a Writer


Aug 26, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: How Not to Write a Fan Letter


Aug 25, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “Cloudsplitter,” by Russell Banks


Aug 24, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Movies

Night at the Movies: “The End of the Tour”


Aug 18, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence, Table For Two: Interviews

Table For Two: An Interview with T.C. Boyle


Aug 13, 2015  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Good Advice Thursday: Authors, Keep your Copyrights!


Aug 9, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside, Photo Haiku

Getting Outside Saturday: Once More to the Beach (a photo haiku)


Jul 29, 2015  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Summer Writing


Jul 28, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Reading Under the Influence

Guy at the Bar: Vince Passaro on the Passing of E. L. Doctorow


Jul 27, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics, Guest Columns, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “The Brothers: The Road To An American Tragedy,” by Masha Gessen


Jul 14, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Jukebox, Movies

“Love and Mercy” Rocks


Jul 8, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Get Up The Wall


Jul 5, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside, Photo Haiku

Getting Outside Saturday: Sparkler Time (a photo haiku)


Jun 25, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics, Guest Columns

Guy at the Bar: Vince Passaro on Post-Racial Life


Jun 24, 2015  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: A Lot at a Time


Jun 17, 2015  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: A Little at a Time


Jun 15, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A Reading with Ed and Wally


Jun 14, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Photo Haiku

Getting Outside Saturday: A Few Maine Flowers (a photo haiku)


Jun 9, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “H is for Hawk,” by Helen Macdonald


Jun 6, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A Talk with Jack Loeffler (And Another Talk this Coming Wednesday)


Jun 2, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “All Involved,” by Ryan Gattis


Jun 1, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

O is for Osprey


May 26, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A Reality Show You’ll Love. No, Really.


May 22, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Washington Post Chimes in


May 17, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside, Photo Haiku

Getting Outside Saturday: Spring Blossoms (a photo haiku)


May 14, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Jukebox

Anxious is Back, but in a Minor Key


May 13, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Take my Graphic Novel Class!


May 12, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics

Gessner Receives Four-Post Suspension for “Boothgate”


May 10, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Farewell to Ivan Doig, Another Great of the American (North) West


May 8, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Here Come the Summer Birds!


May 6, 2015  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Naming is Knowing


May 5, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

First Sight


Apr 30, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Table for Two: Debora Black Interviews Abigail Thomas


Apr 29, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Don’t Read Your Reviews


Apr 25, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Idiots with Phones


Apr 24, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The “All The Wild” Tour: Rough Draft!


Apr 22, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday, Earth-Day Edition: Cross Borders!


Apr 21, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “All the Wild That Remains,” by David Gessner


Apr 20, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Spill and the Drought: Restraint, Regulation, and This Beautiful Country


Apr 19, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Salon’s Excerpt This Sunday Morn


Apr 18, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Photo Haiku

Getting Outside Saturday: Boyhood Spring Things (a photo haiku)


Apr 17, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

From Amazon’s Ominivoracious Blog: Wild Ed and Straightlaced Wally


Apr 16, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A Letter to Readers as Pub Date Approaches


Apr 15, 2015  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Bad Advice Wednesday: Teaching Creative Nonfiction? Here’s the Best Craft Book on the Market!


Apr 13, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Pirates! Bill and Dave Take Over the Kenyon Review (Booth)


Apr 11, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bill and Dave’s AWP Adventures


Apr 1, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Write Everything!


Mar 31, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Abbey in Havasu


Mar 30, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America,” by Jill Leovy


Mar 26, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Find 25 Creatures!


Mar 23, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

On the Road (and Writing the Book)


Mar 21, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside, Photo Haiku

Getting Outside Saturday: Traveling Giants


Mar 20, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Outside Magazine Weighs in on All the Wild That Remains


Mar 17, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

North Carolina’s New State Song


Mar 10, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Book in hand


Mar 9, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “Closer All the Time,” by Jim Nichols


Mar 7, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A Hidden Life


Mar 5, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Table For Two: An Interview with Jim Nichols


Mar 4, 2015  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Why Not Say What Happened?


Mar 2, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The House at the End of the World


Mar 1, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Table for Two: An Interview with Melissa Falcon Field


Feb 25, 2015  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Create a Tour!


Feb 24, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

When Doug Met Arnold


Feb 23, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “The Whites,” by Harry Brandt, aka Richard Price


Feb 20, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Come to Minnesota to Write This Summer


Feb 17, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

All the Wild That Remains Trailer


Feb 11, 2015  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Don’t Know Where You’re Going


Feb 9, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “Astonish Me,” by Maggie Shipstead


Feb 6, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Cartoon Bill Makes the Rounds


Feb 5, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

My Amazon Revenge: Reviewing my Reviewer


Feb 4, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Birthing Your Bastards


Feb 2, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Worst Moment (Before the Best Moment)


Feb 1, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Girlhood. (Supah Sunday Edition.)


Jan 29, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Celebrating Ed Abbey’s Birthday


Jan 28, 2015  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

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


Jan 24, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside, Photo Haiku

Getting Outside Saturday: January Break-Out (a photo haiku)


Jan 22, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Our Best American Essays

Sixty by Sixty: A Meditation in Mosaic Upon the Sixtieth Birthday of the Haystack School of Arts and Crafts, and My Own


Jan 21, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Fight Through the Fear


Jan 20, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Wallace Stegner on Largeness


Jan 14, 2015  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday Expands to Bigger Markets


Jan 12, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “Preparation for the Next Life,” by Atticus Lish


Jan 10, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Getting Outside Saturday: A Few More From the Gulf


Jan 7, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Ed Abbey’s FBI File


Jan 3, 2015  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Getting Outside Saturday: Southern Louisiana Edition


Dec 30, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Return to the Gulf: A Cartoon Journal


Dec 29, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Emotional Trajectory of Publishing a Nonfiction Book


Dec 25, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Photo Haiku

Merry Christmas from John, Paul, George, Ringo, Dave, and Bill


Dec 23, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Jukebox

Goodbye, Joe


Dec 21, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “The Story I Want to Tell,” by The Telling Room


Dec 19, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

We Celebrate our 1000th Post!


Dec 18, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Table for Two: An Interview with Debut Author Annie Weatherwax


Dec 17, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Just Write (2)


Dec 16, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A Few Footnotes on David Foster Wallace Putting Me on His Syllabus


Dec 15, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Drawing Kate


Dec 14, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside, Photo Haiku

Getting Outside Saturday: How to Frolic in the Snow (a photo Haiku)


Dec 11, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: The Memory Game, Redux


Dec 6, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside, Photo Haiku

Getting Outside Saturday: Late Fall in Maine (a photo haiku)


Dec 5, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Reading Under the Influence

DFW on CNF: Deconstructing David Foster Wallace


Dec 3, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Keeping Happy and Healthy on Tour


Dec 1, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “Something Rich and Strange,” by Ron Rash


Nov 18, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Brad in This Week’s New Yorker


Nov 14, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

We’re Number Two


Nov 11, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bill was Born A Ramblin’ Man


Nov 10, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A Perfect Storm of Junger, Miles and Gessner


Nov 6, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Writers’ Week Day 4


Nov 5, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Come out and See two Great Readers


Nov 4, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday, Book Tour Edition


Oct 31, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “The Happiest People in the World,” by Brock Clarke


Oct 29, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Come Feast with Us!


Oct 25, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Getting Outside Saturday: To Bald Head


Oct 24, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Table For Two: Debora Black interviews Annette Berkovits


Oct 22, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Tear Through That Second Half


Oct 21, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Most Excellent


Oct 18, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Autumn II, a photo haiku


Oct 16, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Call in Sick


Oct 13, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “The Remedy For Love,” by Bill Roorbach


Oct 8, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Do Something For Someone Else (from the archives)


Oct 4, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside, Photo Haiku

Getting Outside Saturday: Fall Berries (a photo haiku)


Oct 1, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Don’t Forget Suspense


Sep 29, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “A Rough-Shooting Dog,” by Charles Fergus


Sep 25, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Movies, Reading Under the Influence

The Remedy For Love Book Trailer


Sep 23, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Come See May-Lee Chai read on Thursday


Sep 22, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Our Best American Essays

Autumnal Equinox


Sep 18, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Are you Ready for Some Wife-Beating?


Sep 17, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice All-Stars: Lose the Suitcase!


Sep 16, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Georgia Review, Ecotone and Some Guy named Henry


Sep 14, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Our Sunday Sermon: A Dialogue on Race (and Writing)


Sep 13, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Gold Season (a photo haiku)


Sep 11, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Tour de Blog: Bill and Dave Join the Great All-Universe Blog Tour


Sep 10, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday All Stars: Write a Fan Letter!


Sep 8, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Table for Two: Bill Interviews “Nightingale” author Suzanne Congdon LeRoy


Sep 3, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Good Advice Wednesday: Check out Nina’s New Book


Aug 30, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Building the Shack


Aug 27, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday Greatest Hits: Finding Time to Write


Aug 26, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “Joe,” by Larry Brown


Aug 23, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

“The Remedy For Love” Book Tour!


Aug 22, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns

My Shadow Syllabus


Aug 20, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Listen to Bill


Aug 18, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Coming Next Spring…


Aug 17, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Sunday Sermon

Bill’s Sunday Sermon: It’s Not About Strength


Aug 14, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “The Fog of Forgetting,” by Genevieve Morgan


Aug 13, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Greatest Hits


Aug 12, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence, Table For Two: Interviews

The Remedy for Love Pretend Dinner Party and Group Interview


Aug 10, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence, Serial Sunday

Serial Sunday: Crash Barry’s “Tough Island” (Final Episode and Afterword!)


Aug 9, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside, Photo Haiku

Getting Outside Saturday: Some Summer Sightings (A Photo Haiku)


Aug 7, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A Morning with William James


Aug 6, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Hold Onto Your Delusions


Aug 5, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Beavers


Aug 4, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “Fridays at Enricos,” by Don Carpenter


Aug 3, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Serial Sunday

Serial Sunday: “Tough Island” by Crash Barry (Penultimate Episode!)


Aug 1, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Kirkus Loves our Bill


Jul 30, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Don’t Wait Till the Last Minute Like Me!


Jul 29, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Some Nice Person Put This Together and Put it on Twitter


Jul 27, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Serial Sunday

Serial Sunday: “Tough Island,” by Crash Barry (Episode 29)


Jul 21, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lungren’s Lounge: “The Last Magazine,” by Michael Hastings


Jul 19, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Song of Valerie Macon


Jul 18, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

My Budding Ears, or, On Being an E-Hypocrite


Jul 16, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: On Getting It All Wrong


Jul 14, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The New Ecotone is Coming!


Jul 13, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Serial Sunday

Serial Sunday: Crash Barry’s “Tough Island” (Episode 28)


Jul 12, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Getting Outside Saturday: Going Deep


Jul 9, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Balls to the Walls


Jul 8, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Guest Columns

Anxious Bode is not Like Other People


Jul 6, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Serial Sunday

Serial Sunday: “Tough Island,” by Crash Barry (Episode 27)


Jul 5, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Pine Needle Runes on Drury Pond (a photo haiku)


Jul 2, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: The Google Image Edition


Jul 1, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “To Rise Again at a Decent Hour,” by Joshua Ferris


Jun 29, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: Crash Barry’s “Tough Island,” episode 26


Jun 28, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: A Hudson River Haiku


Jun 25, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Find Your Voice


Jun 24, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “Driving Mr. Albert,” by Michael Paterniti


Jun 22, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Anxious Bode in the House of God


Jun 21, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Over Six Feet by Solstice (a photo haiku)


Jun 19, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

“Big Bend” is Back and Better than Ever!


Jun 18, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Up Shit Creek (Or, Dawson’s Creek is Full of Shit, the Actual Creek, not the Show)


Jun 11, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Let’s Write Some Fiction


Jun 8, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: “Tough Island,” by Crash Barry (episode 25)


Jun 7, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Na Pali Sea Cave Sojourn (a Hawaiian photo haiku)


Jun 5, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “The Painter,” by Peter Heller


Jun 4, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Try This Little Exercise in Empathy


May 29, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Downstream Dog


May 23, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Backwoods Jack!


May 21, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Embrace the Dread!


May 19, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Antarctica is Melting. Meanwhile Back in Carolina….


May 17, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Getting Outside Saturday: 5K!


May 16, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “Euphoria,” by Lily King


May 15, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Feeling Low


May 11, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Where’s Bildo?


May 9, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Only Three Spots Left!


May 8, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Carolina Follies Part XV: Highlights from the Primary


May 7, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Celebrate the Birth of a Book!


May 6, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Reject: A Call for Submissions


May 5, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Write Like a Bowerbird: My Review in Sunday’s Washington Post


May 4, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: “Tough Island” by Crash Barry” Episode 24


May 2, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “Galveston” by Nic Pizzolatto


May 1, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Who Took This Picture?


Apr 30, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Finding Time to Write


Apr 29, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

TO BE A WOLF by Hadley Gessner


Apr 27, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: “Tough Island,” by Crash Barry: Episode 23


Apr 26, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Getting Outside Saturday: In the Mountains, On the River


Apr 23, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Release Your Hate!


Apr 22, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Not Forgotten, But Gone


Apr 20, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: Crash Barry’s “Tough Island,” Episode 22


Apr 18, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: My Number-One All-Time Favorite Novel


Apr 18, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Movies

Captain America Agrees


Apr 17, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

David and Henry David, Linked Across the Centuries


Apr 16, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Remake


Apr 15, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Progress of Spring: New Arrivals


Apr 13, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: “Tough Island,” by Crash Barry: Episode 21


Apr 12, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Progress of Spring (A Photo Haiku)


Apr 10, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Now What? (On Being Graduated from an MFA Writing Program)


Apr 9, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Go Back to Your Beginnings!


Apr 8, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Gardening and Being


Apr 6, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: “Tough Island” by Crash Barry: Episode 20


Apr 5, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Happy Anniversary to Bill and Dave’s


Apr 4, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “Marijuana Valley” by Crash Barry


Apr 3, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Ecotone and Lookout Talks next week in Boston (with Bill!) and New York


Apr 2, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Is That So?


Apr 1, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Making of a Book: the Author Questionaire


Mar 30, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: “Tough Island” by Crash Barry, Episode 19


Mar 29, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: The Sap is Finally Running! (A Photo Haiku)


Mar 28, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “Shotgun Lovesongs” by Nickolas Butler


Mar 26, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics

Great Advice Thursday: Don’t be a Dummy. Get Health Insurance Now.


Mar 26, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: A Yurt of One’s Own


Mar 25, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Late Encounters with Flannery O’Connor


Mar 24, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Absinthe


Mar 23, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: “Tough Island” by Crash Barry: Episode 18


Mar 22, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Getting Outside Saturday: Wipe Out!


Mar 21, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Take a Course with Dave (or Nina) This Summer


Mar 19, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: UCLA Q and A, with Rona Elliot


Mar 18, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Movies

Flatball!


Mar 17, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “White Girls” by Hilton Als


Mar 16, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: “Tough Island” by Crash Barry, Episode 17


Mar 15, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Happy Birthday to Dave!


Mar 13, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Astoria to Zion


Mar 12, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Get Me To the World on Time (Six Thoughts on Place in Writing)


Mar 11, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Reading Under the Influence: The Twitter Fiction Festival


Mar 10, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Writing for Our Lives


Mar 9, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: “Tough Island” by Crash Barry, Episode 16


Mar 8, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Progress of Spring I (a photo haiku)


Mar 6, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Signs and Portents Along the Way


Mar 5, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Listen to Ira


Mar 2, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics

India: You’re Criminal if Gay (by Leila Seth)


Feb 27, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Anxiety!


Feb 26, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Taking It Easy Is Harder Than It Looks


Feb 24, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Essay’s Place


Feb 23, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside, Guest Columns, Reading Under the Influence, Serial Sunday

Serial Sunday: Crash Barry’s illustrated TOUGH ISLAND, Complete!


Feb 19, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Believe in Will (Why Not?)


Feb 18, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “The Free,” by Willy Vlautin


Feb 14, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Happy Valentine’s Day…


Feb 13, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Anxious Bode Returns: A Peaceful Panic


Feb 12, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Get to Work


Feb 8, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Getting Outside Saturday: CSI Brewster


Feb 5, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Observe. Do. Think. Make.


Feb 4, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Owlmania!


Feb 3, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “Want Not,” by Jonathan Miles


Jan 31, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

From the Bill and Dave Archives: Skiing the Beach


Jan 29, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Why Not Say It? (UCLA Q and A with Pam S.)


Jan 27, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

My Retreat Journal


Jan 24, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Uncle David


Jan 23, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “The Epicure’s Lament” by Kate Christiensen


Jan 22, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Toss the Noodle at the Wall


Jan 21, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Snow and Snowys Part II


Jan 20, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Snow Owl


Jan 18, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: The Garden Keeps on Giving (a photo haiku)


Jan 15, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Why, Thank You Sir. I Do Have Great Tits!


Jan 14, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Howling with the Trickster: A Wild Memoir Part I


Jan 11, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Flying in Alaska


Jan 10, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

E.B. White and Me


Jan 9, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Meet the Keatles


Jan 8, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: UCLA Q and A, with Sara-Kate


Jan 7, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

On Failing as a Writer by James Lang


Jan 4, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Twenty Below (A photo Haiku)


Jan 3, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Flash Tips for Writing Flash Fiction Friday


Jan 2, 2014  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Our Best American Essays, Reading Under the Influence

Greatest Sportswriter of 2013? David Gessner!


Jan 1, 2014  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: New Year’s Resolutions for Writers from Dave and Bill


Dec 31, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: The Best of 2013


Dec 26, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Reading Under the Influence: Bodwell’s Baker’s Dozen, Best Books of 2013


Dec 25, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Bad Advice Christmas: Find Your Own Island


Dec 25, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Merry Christmas!


Dec 24, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A Tale for Christmas Eve


Dec 23, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Oh, You’re a Writer? (Reasons I’ve Started to Bite My Tongue)


Dec 20, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Read, Read, Read Everything: An Interview with Poet Cynthia Atkins


Dec 18, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Live on Osprey Time


Dec 16, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics

American Sign Language: A Photo Haiku


Dec 14, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Getting Outside Saturday: Patience, Patience


Dec 13, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Gertrude’s Steins


Dec 12, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “Men We Reaped,” by Jesmyn Ward


Dec 11, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: UCLA Q and A, with T. Locke


Dec 10, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Recent Random Journal Doodles (and Notes)


Dec 9, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Reading Under the Influence: “Leaving Tuscaloosa” by Walter Bennet


Dec 7, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: That Time My Plane Almost Crashed


Dec 5, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “The Sea and Civilization,” by Lincoln Paine


Dec 4, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Choose Your Own Adventure


Dec 3, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Caught in Cuba


Nov 30, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: It Was the Best of Times


Nov 27, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday Holiday Edition


Nov 26, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

America’s Next Top Nature Writer


Nov 25, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Thankful Things


Nov 23, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: The Falcon and the Sparrow


Nov 22, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Movies

Night at the Movies: “Blue is the Warmest Color,” by Abellatif Kechiche


Nov 21, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Dave, Lost and Wandering. Part IV


Nov 20, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Beware Your Own Old Words


Nov 19, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Rejected Titles For That Novel I Haven’t Bothered To Write Yet


Nov 17, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics

Seven Things You and Facebook Don’t Know About Me


Nov 16, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Bringing in the Feasts of Fall


Nov 14, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Pas de Trois: Three Books About Ballet


Nov 13, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Don’t Enshrine Craft


Nov 12, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Girl Power


Nov 11, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “Gaining Ground,” by Forrest Pritchard


Nov 10, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Serial Sunday: Henry Miller’s Commandments for Young Writers


Nov 9, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Los Angeles (a photo haiku)


Nov 8, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bill and Dave Take a Break


Nov 7, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “The Circle,” by Dave Eggers


Nov 6, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Let Politics In


Nov 5, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Davey Does Harvard


Nov 4, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Bizarre Copyright-Beating Pirate Computer Translation Attacks Invoice Roorbach


Nov 2, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Getting Outside Saturday: See the Outer Banks Before They Are Gone


Oct 31, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Kung Fu, Consciousness Change, and Sandy One Year Later


Oct 30, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Applying for an MFA Program? Whoa! Not So Fast


Oct 29, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

My Hall-of-Fame Brother


Oct 28, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Single Parenting and the Aspiring Writer


Oct 26, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Our Own Dave Thinking 20 Years Out on MSNBC


Oct 25, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Five Months after the MFA: Getting Friendly with Reality


Oct 24, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Dune Wars


Oct 23, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: My Top Ten Pieces of Advice


Oct 22, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Table for Two: An interview with Nina de Gramont


Oct 21, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The New Normal: Meditations from the Rubble Pile


Oct 19, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Getting Outside Saturday: The Unmanly Retreat of a Lighthouse


Oct 18, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: Alice Munro, Nobel Laureate!


Oct 17, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Dave, Lost and Wandering, Part III


Oct 16, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Get Parkinson’s Disease


Oct 15, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Meet Me at the River


Oct 14, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Literary Death Match Portland, ME, 2013 (a primer in photos)


Oct 12, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bill is King!


Oct 11, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Hurricane Watch


Oct 10, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge,” by Peter Orner


Oct 9, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Steal from the Great


Oct 7, 2013  |  Posted in Cartoons

Dave, Lost and Wandering


Oct 6, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Our Best American Short Stories

Serial Sunday: “Original and Solitary Lovers” (Another Great Short Story by John J. Clayton)


Oct 5, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Taylor Swift in Nashville (An Ode upon Elysia’s 13th Birthday)


Oct 3, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Help Wanted: Looking For a New Dave


Oct 2, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Don’t Pick the Flowers! An Un-Fairy Tale


Oct 1, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

What Every Kid Wants….An Ultimate Frisbee Bubblegum Card


Sep 30, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Table for Two: An Interview with Elizabeth Cohen


Sep 28, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Booktopia, Petoskey Michigan (a photo decastich)


Sep 27, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Pick You Own Caption: A Bill and Dave’s Contest


Sep 26, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “The Maid’s Version,” by Daniel Woodrell


Sep 25, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Become a Planning, List-Making Freak


Sep 24, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Telegram


Sep 20, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Table for Two: An Interview with Lauren Grodstein


Sep 19, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Gliding Down the Hill: Escaping to Boulder


Sep 18, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Art is the Solving of Problems


Sep 17, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Food and The Flood


Sep 16, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

An Open Letter to Bill McKibben


Sep 14, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Morning Glory (a photo haiku)


Sep 11, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Writing Tips from Annie Dillard and Rafael Nadal


Sep 10, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “A House in the Sky,” by Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett


Sep 9, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Skimmers!


Sep 8, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: “Hoosac Tunnel,” a story by John J. Clayton


Sep 6, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Wicked Pissah, or, Not So Dirty Water


Sep 5, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Table for Two: Derek Alger Interviews Alan Cheuse


Sep 4, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Get on Your Bike!


Aug 31, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Decatur Book Festival (a photo haiku)


Aug 30, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “I’m Losing You,” by Bruce Wagner


Aug 29, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Winston Lives!


Aug 28, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: The Ex Factor


Aug 26, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Movies

Five Crappy Things an Emerging Actor Goes Through Way Too Often


Aug 24, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: 4-H Sale (A Photo Double-Tanka)


Aug 23, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Held As Earth


Aug 20, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “Life Among Giants,” by Bill Roorbach (Paperback Pub Day!)


Aug 18, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

60


Aug 17, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Some Signs of the Times (a photo haiku)


Aug 16, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

From Blogger to Author: Learning the Blogging Genre & Blogging a Book


Aug 14, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words (That I Didn’t Feel Like Writing)


Aug 13, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Sleeping with Wolves


Aug 12, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “My Education,” by Susan Choi


Aug 11, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

A Sunday Drive with Death in Cameroon


Aug 10, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: High Summer Wildflowers (a photo haiku)


Aug 9, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics

Writing from Inside: “Urk,” by Kim S.


Aug 7, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice

Bad Advice Wednesday: Never Surrender! (But be Flexible)


Aug 6, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “Massacre Pond,” by Paul Doiron


Aug 5, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Tar Pits: Welcome to Gulag Carolina


Aug 4, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: “Tough Island” by Crash Barry (episode 15)


Aug 3, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Moss (A Photo Haiku)


Aug 2, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Autocorrected Sonnets and Love Poems of William Shakespeare, by Meg Pokrass


Jul 31, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Try it Without Words


Jul 30, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Lungren’s Book Lounge: “Blue Plate Special,” by Kate Christensen


Jul 29, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A Pet Peeve: Mischievous


Jul 28, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: Crash Barry’s “Tough Island” (Episode 14)


Jul 27, 2013  |  Posted in Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: For the Birds


Jul 25, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Some Stuff I Cut: Two Parties


Jul 23, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Some Stuff I Cut: I Apologize To Nevada


Jul 17, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Be an Elf to Yourself


Jul 15, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Our Elves, Ourselves (or, Game of Thorns)


Jul 14, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: Crash Barry’s “Tough Island: True Stories from Matinicus Island” (Episode 13)


Jul 13, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Art in the Grain Shed (a photo haiku)


Jul 12, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics, Reading Under the Influence

A Couple of Writers who Teach Talk About the Common Core and the Fate of the Essay


Jul 11, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “Drinking with Men,” by Rosie Schaap


Jul 10, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: A Life Stored in Clutter (Celebrate)


Jul 9, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Independent Bookstore Tuesday: Run Like Hell!


Jul 8, 2013  |  Posted in Cartoons, Cocktail Hour

THE DAY THE INTERNET DIED (July 23, 2018)


Jul 7, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: Crash Barry’s “Tough Island: True Stories from Matinicus Island” (Episode 12)


Jul 6, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: The Hissing of Summer Lawns


Jul 5, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, I Used to Play in Bands

I Used to Play in Bands, Too


Jul 4, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics

Happy Fourth


Jul 3, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Try Not to Die


Jul 2, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Writing From Inside: “Dear Karla,” by Karla


Jul 1, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Don’t Worry, I’m Not Going to Tear My Shirt off and Punch a Critic in the Face, But.


Jun 30, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: Crash Barry’s “Tough Island: True Stories from Matinicus” (Episode 11)


Jun 29, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Secret Sharers (a Photo Haiku)


Jun 28, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “City of Bohane,” by Kevin Barry


Jun 27, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Be a part of the Debut of Iota: The Conference of Short Prose


Jun 26, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Twelve Habits of People Who Don’t Give A Shit About Your Inner Peace


Jun 25, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Southern Fried Scribes: Success


Jun 24, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

My Passive-Aggressive Serenity Prayer


Jun 23, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: “Tough Island: True Stories from Matinicus, Maine” (Episode Ten)


Jun 22, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Things in NYC that Reminded Me of Dave


Jun 21, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Lounge: “Transatlantic,” by Colum McCann


Jun 19, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Writing the First Draft


Jun 18, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Big Primal and the small primal


Jun 17, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Writing from Inside: “Best Friends,” by W. Wrighter


Jun 16, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Happy Aquatic Father’s Day: A Photo-Essay


Jun 15, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Why I Climb


Jun 14, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Edgerton on Fatherhood, Edgerton on Film


Jun 13, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Movies

Movie Night: Star Trek, Where Men Have Boldly Gone Before, Happily


Jun 12, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Tend Your Garden


Jun 11, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Hollywood Hit List: A Few Things We Never Need to See in Any Movie Ever Again


Jun 10, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Writing from Inside: “Nail,” by Danielle R.


Jun 9, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: Crash Barry’s “Tough Island”: Episode Nine


Jun 8, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Getting Outside Saturday: Death of a Bridge


Jun 7, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: Eduardo Galleano’s “Children of the Days”


Jun 6, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Meet the Authors


Jun 5, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Go Deep Into Your Book!


Jun 4, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

An Interview with Caroline Leavitt


Jun 3, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

James Dickey’s Fan Letters to Wallace Stegner


Jun 2, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: Crash Barry’s “Tough Island”: Episode Eight


Jun 1, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Maine Literary Awards (A Selfie Haiku)


May 31, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

My Acceptance Speech


May 30, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Chess Champ


May 29, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: 15 Great Writers’ Writing Advice Revisited


May 28, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

My Wife the Superhero–Part II


May 27, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

After the MFA? Another Great Writing Day


May 26, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: Crash Barry’s “Tough Island”: Episode Seven


May 25, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Wet


May 24, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Baseball, Joe Dimaggio, and Pacifism: Colbert, How Can You Resist?


May 23, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Meet the Keatles!


May 22, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: How to Work with an Editor


May 20, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

You’re Never Alone When You’re with a Drone


May 20, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk,” by Ben Fountain


May 19, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: Crash Barry’s “Tough Island: True Stories from Matinicus, Maine”: Episode Six


May 18, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Debora Bikes Steamboat Springs (a photo haiku)


May 17, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

A Bill and Dave Classic: The Top 10 Sexiest Nature Writers in History


May 15, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Start Everywhere


May 14, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “The River Swimmer,” by Jim Harrison


May 13, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

No Mountains (a guest post by Thierry Kauffmann)


May 12, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: Crash Barry’s “Tough Island: True Stories from Matinicus, Maine”: Episode Five


May 11, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: New Leaves (a double photo haiku)


May 10, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “The Astral,” by Kate Christensen


May 9, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

21 Blocks: A Firsthand Account of April 19th in Watertown


May 8, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Beam Me Up,Scotty!


May 7, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Want to be a Badass? Read This Book!


May 6, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A Memorial Flight Mystery (a photo haiku)


May 5, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: Tough Island: True Stories from Matinicus, Maine, by Crash Barry (episode 4)


May 4, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Climbing with Rosie Bates


May 3, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: “The Flamethrowers” by Rachel Kushner


May 2, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Luis and Me


May 1, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Three Lessons on the Path to Publication of My Memoir


Apr 30, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Lundgren’s Book Lounge: John Leonard’s “Reading for My Life”


Apr 29, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics

Southern Fried Scribes is Almost There! Help a Couple of Idealists Help a Bunch of Kids!


Apr 28, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: Tough Island: True Stories from Matinicus, Maine, by Crash Barry


Apr 26, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Clearly Now, The Rain


Apr 25, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Guerrilla Marketing with Eli Hastings


Apr 24, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Listen to Eli!


Apr 22, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Swan Update!


Apr 21, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: Tough Island: True Stories from Matinicus, Maine, by Crash Barry


Apr 20, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Getting Outside Saturday: Random Associations and The Wired Woods


Apr 19, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The State I’m In: Watching North Carolina Destroy Itself


Apr 18, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Reading Under the Influence: Lundgren’s Book Lounge


Apr 17, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Rock the Boat


Apr 13, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: Tough Island: True Stories from Matinicus, Maine, by Crash Barry


Apr 13, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Getting Outside Saturday: The Swan in Our Backyard


Apr 12, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

And the Winner Is:


Apr 10, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Don’t Do Anything


Apr 9, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Southern Fried Scribes


Apr 8, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Diary of a Comeback: Part I


Apr 7, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Bill and Dave’s Even Sweeter Sixteen: Voting Extended to April 11, 2013


Apr 6, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Getting Outside Saturday: Coyote!


Apr 4, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Reading Under the Influence: A Look Back at Antonya Nelson’s Expendables


Apr 3, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Bad Advice Wednesday: It’s a Brave Old World


Apr 1, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Our Sweet Sixteen: Help Us Determine the Best Writin’ School in the Land


Mar 30, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Last Ski of the Season?


Mar 27, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Move Around!


Mar 26, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

The Amish, Cattails, and Dinty: A Trip to Ohio in iPhone Photos


Mar 23, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Virginia Festival of the Book


Mar 22, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Help “Ultimate Glory” Turn 25 (And More Greatest Hits from Bill and Dave’s)


Mar 20, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Finding Time to Write


Mar 18, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Telling Stories with Music


Mar 16, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Tucson Edition (a photo haiku)


Mar 15, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Happy Birthday Dave from Bill and Dave’s Nation!


Mar 14, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Friends, Sidekicks, and Disorganized Wanderers


Mar 13, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Write About Animals


Mar 11, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Forever 21 and Grandma’s Attic: The Fashion Report from AWP


Mar 10, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Can You Pay Me?


Mar 8, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

What Kind of Annoying Writer Are You?


Mar 7, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bill and Dave’s Live from AWP Boston!


Mar 6, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Come See Bill and Dave at the Bill and Dave Table!


Mar 5, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Pipedreams: Time and the Insubordinate Writer


Mar 4, 2013  |  Posted in Cartoons, Cocktail Hour

Thanks to Our Guest Posters!


Mar 3, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside: Late Winter Edition (More Damn Photo Haiku)


Feb 27, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: A Rose by Any Other Name Would be Distracting


Feb 26, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Great Pick-Up Lines


Feb 24, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Coming Downton Deaths


Feb 22, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Where the Frack is Vernal, Utah?


Feb 20, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: The Art of Schmoozing (Just in Time for AWP)


Feb 19, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

News Release: Return to New York


Feb 16, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: A Walk on the Winter Beach


Feb 14, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Raucous Voices: Dave Talks to the Washington Post


Feb 13, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Tommy Takes Over!


Feb 12, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: The Tuesday Edition (Snowmageddon)


Feb 8, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

My Wife’s Secret Identity…..


Feb 6, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: No Small Gift–An Exchange with Poet John Casteen


Feb 4, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Haystack: The Writer as Craftsperson


Feb 2, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice: Super Bowl Sunday Edition (Wah!)


Jan 31, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Movies

Night at the Movies: Silver Linings Playbook


Jan 30, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: My Gulliver Complex


Jan 29, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Giants on the Road: Westward! (A Photo Ghazal)


Jan 26, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: India Edition (A photo haiku by someone besides Bill)


Jan 25, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Table for Two: Interview with Wes McNair


Jan 24, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Anatomy of a Hangover


Jan 23, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Be Porous, Be Available


Jan 21, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A Great Day


Jan 19, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Getting Outside Saturday: One-Arm, One-Ball, No-Brain


Jan 18, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Where Are You Now, John Wesley Powell?


Jan 16, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Un-Workshop!


Jan 15, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Wired Woods: The Long and the Short of It


Jan 13, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Alive and Well! A San Francisco Independent Bookstore Photo Haiku


Jan 12, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Almost Paradise


Jan 10, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Good-bye to a Friend


Jan 9, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: To Binge or Plod?


Jan 8, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Where’s Bildo?


Jan 5, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: A Haiku in Snow


Jan 4, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Good-bye to An Editor


Jan 2, 2013  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Throw Your Skis Across the Brook


Jan 1, 2013  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Happy New Year!


Dec 29, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Getting Outside Saturday: A Solstice Swim


Dec 27, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Giants on the Road: Second Leg of the Mighty Tour. A Photo Epic, Volume II


Dec 26, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Genre Jump!


Dec 24, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Merry Christmas!


Dec 22, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: The Feel Good


Dec 21, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Table for Two: Bill Interviews Himself


Dec 20, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Words That Map the Land (By Ecotone Contributors)


Dec 19, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Greetings from a 25-Year Old in His Childhood Bed in His Parents’ House


Dec 15, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: First Snow (a photo haiku)


Dec 12, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Wait till the last minute!


Dec 11, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Where’s Bildo? (Dave Edition)


Dec 8, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Name That City!


Dec 6, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Where’s Bildo?


Dec 5, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Extract Raw Materials!


Dec 3, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

For the Love of Water


Dec 2, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Where’s Bildo Now?


Nov 29, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Where’s Bildo?


Nov 28, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Work the Work


Nov 25, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: The Weight of Light, Episode 9


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

Giants on the Road, First Leg of the Mighty Tour, a Photo Epic


Nov 21, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Quit Like Roth


Nov 20, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Long Lost Script for the My Green Manifesto Trailer


Nov 19, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

A Giant Day


Nov 18, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: The Weight of Light, Episode 8


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

Getting Outside Saturday: Where’s Bildo?


Nov 15, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Benediction


Nov 14, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Practice, Practice, Practice


Nov 13, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Bill’s Pub Day!!


Nov 11, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: The Weight of Light, Episode 7


Nov 9, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

On Superstorms and Sea Level: Interview With the Man Who Saw it Coming


Nov 8, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

It’s Lonely Out There!


Nov 7, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Cartoons and Notes From a Big Night


Nov 7, 2012  |  Posted in Cartoons, Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics

This moment in history


Nov 5, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Re-Build? Re-think.


Nov 4, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: The Weight of Light, Episode 6


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

Getting Outside Saturday (and Sunday): Bill and Dave go Camping


Nov 3, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Where’s Bildo?


Nov 2, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Sandy and Climate Change


Nov 1, 2012  |  Posted in Cartoons, Cocktail Hour

The Complete Romney Set


Oct 31, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Stop Doing That!


Oct 30, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Wild Ducks: How an Essay of the Empty Nest was Hatched


Oct 29, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Buckeyes


Oct 28, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: The Weight of Light: Episode 5


Oct 27, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Adventures in RomneyLand V: A State of Love


Oct 26, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Table for Two, Minus One: Michael Nye Interviews Himself


Oct 25, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Last Testicular Hero


Oct 25, 2012  |  Posted in Cartoons, Cocktail Hour

Adventures in RomneyLand IV: What a Cute and Cuddly Moderate…


Oct 24, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice

Bad Advice Wednesday: Have Way (with words)


Oct 23, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, I Used to Play in Bands, Movies

Life Among Giants: An Amateur Makes a Trailer, and Hooks it to a Star


Oct 22, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The John Hay Foundation


Oct 21, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: The Weight of Light, Episode 4


Oct 21, 2012  |  Posted in Cartoons, Cocktail Hour

Let Them Eat [Fill in The Blank]


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

Getting Outside Saturday: A Pacific Northwest Renga


Oct 18, 2012  |  Posted in Cartoons

Six Predictions for Monday’s Debate


Oct 18, 2012  |  Posted in Cartoons, Cocktail Hour

Adventures in RomneyLand III: Bindermania!


Oct 17, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: It’s All About the Gaga


Oct 15, 2012  |  Posted in Cartoons, Cocktail Hour

Adventures in Romneyland II: Rise of the Chameleon!


Oct 14, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: The Weight of Light, Episode 3


Oct 13, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday, and Falling in the Brook


Oct 12, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

From the Archives: The Author Photo


Oct 11, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Day I Stopped Being an Environmental Writer by Susan Zakin


Oct 10, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Play with Time!


Oct 8, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics

Push Polling in Maine, and no doubt Elsewhere. Beware.


Oct 7, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: The Weight of Light, Episode 2


Oct 6, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Getting Outside Saturday: A Feeling of Wildness


Oct 4, 2012  |  Posted in Cartoons, Cocktail Hour

The Innards


Oct 3, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Steady as she Goes!


Oct 1, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Serial Sunday: “The Weight of Light”


Sep 29, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: A Rainy Day Haiku


Sep 28, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Telephone: The Translation Game


Sep 27, 2012  |  Posted in Cartoons, Cocktail Hour

Romney’s New Campaign Slogan


Sep 26, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice

Bad Advice Wednesday: Research Creatively (and Empathetically)


Sep 25, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Happy Birthday Poppy


Sep 24, 2012  |  Posted in Cartoons, Cocktail Hour

Adventures in Romneyland: Part 1


Sep 22, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: When Bill and Dave Came to Doe Branch


Sep 21, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Mitt Romney’s Inner Selves (We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet)


Sep 20, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bill and Dave Just Want to Be Liked


Sep 19, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Reelin’ in the Years


Sep 18, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

My Dinner With Updike


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

How I Came to Write This Book


Sep 15, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: No Country for Waxwings


Sep 13, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Reading Under the Influence: Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life


Sep 12, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Learn to Take a Punch


Sep 11, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

We The Animals: Book Spine Poem II


Sep 10, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Attack! And Riposte! (Countering a Nasty Reviewer)


Sep 8, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Getting Outside Saturday: The Coming Season(s)


Sep 5, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Bad Advice Wednesday: Writing by the Think System


Sep 3, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Technology I Like: Presenting the jPad


Aug 31, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Beach Day


Aug 29, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Slow Down


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

Reverse Table for Two: Gadi Elkin interviews Bill Roorbach in Dallas, Virtually


Aug 25, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Porcini in butter. (Photo Haiku # 457)


Aug 24, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

First Day of School: Field Notes on an Electronic Generation


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

Bad Advice Wednesday: Become an Expert


Aug 21, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Scars on a Dry Land


Aug 20, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

A Book Spine Poem


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

Getting Outside Saturday: Birthday Edition


Aug 16, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Piano Lesson


Aug 15, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Take a Road Trip


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

Table For Two: An Interview with John Lane


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

Getting Outside Saturday: Garlic Girl


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

Bad Advice Wednesday: Have an Idea


Aug 7, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Stay Awake for the End is Near: Literature Meets Slumber Party at a Moby-Dick Marathon


Aug 5, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Sacred Water


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

Getting Outside Saturday: Hog Island


Aug 2, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Paperback Has Arrived!


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

Bad Advice Wednesday: Just Say No


Jul 30, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Movies, Table For Two: Interviews

The Video Essay: A New Way to Say (with John Bresland)


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

Getting Outside Saturday: Once More to the Lake


Jul 27, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Where’s Bildo?


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

Bad Advice Wednesday: Take a Day Off, Really Off


Jul 23, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Book Guys


Jul 21, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: A Dog Day Photographic Crown of Sonnets


Jul 20, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Trip So Far in Pictures


Jul 17, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Life Among Giants


Jul 15, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

He Had His Moments


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

Getting Outside Saturday: Things I Noticed When I was Five, and This Morning, Too


Jul 13, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

ON THE ROAD: Highlights of the Western Trip So Far


Jul 12, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Table For Two: Interviews

Table for Two: An Interview with Monica Wood


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

Bad Advice Wednesday: Write a Fan Letter. Preferably to Me.


Jul 10, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Support Your Local Prankster


Jul 9, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Origami Weekend: Confessions of a Non-Folder, Continued


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

Getting Outside Saturday: Summer Swimming


Jul 6, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Nature Writing by the Numbers


Jul 4, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Beg for Money!


Jul 2, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Dave at Doe Branch: A Photo Haiku


Jun 30, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Summer Pleasures, a Photo Haiku


Jun 28, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

My New Book…and New Adventure…..And maybe a little help from you, Dear Reader


Jun 27, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Everything I Need to Know about Writing I Learned from Bartending!


Jun 25, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Reading Under the Influence

Wild, by Cheryl Strayed


Jun 24, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Bug Haiku: North Carolina Night Insects


Jun 23, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Getting Outside Saturday: A Couple of Journal Pages From Long Ago


Jun 21, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Be Relentlessly Generous


Jun 19, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bill and Dave’s on the Road


Jun 18, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Thanks to some of our Recent Guests


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

Getting Outside Saturday: Fern Walk and Turtle Sign


Jun 14, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Eleven Stages of Writing a Book


Jun 13, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Goodbye to the University, Goodbye


Jun 12, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Those Who Write, Teach


Jun 11, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Draw Obama in 6 Easy Steps, Draw Zuckerberg in 5


Jun 7, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Book Expo America and Me


Jun 6, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Don’t Be a Snob!


Jun 5, 2012  |  Posted in Cartoons, Cocktail Hour

The Real Avengers Vs. The Forces of Facebook!


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

Spring Freshet


Jun 2, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Puffins.


May 30, 2012  |  Posted in Bad Advice, Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Interview Yourself, Interview your Characters


May 26, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Getting Outside Saturday: A Visit to the Herring Run with John Hay


May 25, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

What has DOBX been buying lately?


May 24, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Don't Talk About Politics

Eleven Bumper Stickers You Aren’t Likely to See, Election 2012


May 23, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Bad Advice Wednesday: Write a Novel in Just Thirty Years!


May 22, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Origami and the Art of Fiction


May 21, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

The Overnight Sensation: Reflections on a Year of Edith Pearlmania


May 20, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Now I Know my ABCs, My XTC, MIA, ELO, REM, RZA, ODB…


May 19, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour, Getting Outside

Getting Outside Saturday: Remembering a Couple of Fine Ol’ Dogs


May 18, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Gusto (and Schlitz)


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 Cartoons, 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


Mar 30, 2012  |  Posted in Cocktail Hour

Getting Outside Saturday: Wren Cam–Day 5


Mar 28, 2012  |  Posted in Cartoons, 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 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 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 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 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 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 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!


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 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


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 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 Cartoons, 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

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