I attended Goddard College from January 2007 until I left with degree in January 2009. Two years. Now, after months of thinking about it, I realize that graduate school went on longer, much longer than my tenure at Goddard College. The end of graduate school just happened. It happened inContinue Reading
I’ve spent a great deal of time lately in a less-than-quiet self-reflection. I suppose many people go through periods of self-reflection. I’m also of the opinion that it takes a certain event or serious of events to initial it. Perhaps this is all part of growing up. My period ofContinue Reading
Writing Nonfiction for the Literary Magazine Before we get into this portion of Non-fiction for the Literary Magazine, and the nature of essay, let’s revisit our definition of a piece of expository writing. Let’s just say nonfiction is a piece of expository writing based in fact. Further definitions are asContinue Reading
Holy shit, I think. I’m right too. I’m really right. There is no other way to think about it, and there is no other way of saying it. Holy shit sums it up. It’s a sunny day and there are people everywhere and if you’re not terrified, then you mustContinue Reading
Writing Nonfiction for the Literary Magazine When Mark Dragotta and I first started to mold Umbrella Factory Magazine, we had big goals for our little literary corner. For starters, we thought we’d foster and develop some of the greatest fiction writers of the next generation. We, of course, rolled aroundContinue Reading
Writing Nonfiction Worthy of the Literary Magazine: The Review Writing a review, of something (anything) is a great way to flex your muscles as a writer. Case in point, just look at all the blogs, columns and the various things being reviewed. There are reviews on restaurants, chefs; books, movies; productsContinue Reading
I wish I could remember the name of the instructor I had for my Survey of American Literature course at Metro State. It was the fall of 1996. I was a young man then. What I remember of the course is this: the ratio of female to male students wasContinue Reading
Writing Nonfiction Worthy of the Literary Magazine: The Interview With great pleasure, I interviewed Amanda Bales recently. Even though I’ve spent some time working with Amanda, and we’ve had plenty of conversations during recent months, I was surprised at how little I knew Amanda Bales as a writer. Before the interview,Continue Reading
Meet Someone, Learn Something and Pass it on: The Interview I know nothing about interviews. Sure, I’ve had to interview for jobs before. Those interviews have yielded the desired results at key times of my life. At times, I’ve had to be the employer interviewing others. Again, those occasions haveContinue Reading
The place was called Gibson’s Bookstore if anyone cares to remember it. Gibson’s was a great place for us Auraria students. Gibson’s did a few things favorable for college students: the price of books was lower than the campus bookstore, and they also paid a higher return on used books.Continue Reading