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Anthony Bozza’s work covers the gamut of writing styles and content. From humor to heavy-duty criticism, his books elevate the music writing genre. A big fan of fiction writers ranging from Charles Dickens, James Joyce, and Vladimir Nabokov to Chuck Palahniuk, Katherine Dunn, and Amy Hempel, Bozza’s work has a literary quality to it that a [...]

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  I, along with a lot of other people, thought that when an editor or agent indicates that they do not accept unsolicited submissions, that meant you should bugger off. Some agents have enough clients and don’t want to take on any new work. They fear their attention-level will be diminished if they’re spread too thin. [...]

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  Back in March, I mentioned that football wide receiver Terrell Owens had signed a book deal. At the time, I stressed to his editors the importance of getting the book the first year and gave some tongue-in-cheek warnings of what would happen if they didn’t. Evidently, they didn’t need my warnings since T.O. is now [...]

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  When I told everyone to cue up their VCRs for Zinedine Zidane’s final appearance on a soccer field, I had no idea his swan song would turn out the way it did. We’ll never know what Italian defender Marco Materazzi said to elicit such a vicious reaction out of the Zidane, but it was a [...]

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Joey Goebel, author of The Anomalies and Torture The Artist, recently spoke to Will over at Misnomer Radio. The Anomalies was a Book Sense 76 title selected by the nation’s independent booksellers and was also nominated for the Kentucky Literary Award. Torture the Artist was a finalist for the 2004 Kentucky Literary Award. This rollicking interview covered [...]

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When you’re trying to build a writing career, and establish a connection with nonfiction magazine editors, you have to be willing to do whatever they need, whenever they need it, however they want it. I don’t have a journalism degree, I’m not all that tied into the NYC journalism scene, and I have a day job [...]

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  You might remember the interview I did last summer with author James Rollins. At the time, we talked about his novel Map of Bones. I’m not usually a fan of adventure stories, but this one was fantastic. Epic in scale and inventive in plot, I closed that book and said to a friend, “this guy [...]

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Something happened last week which left me humbled and honored. But I just didn’t have the time to post properly about it. So I’ve finally gotten a chance to sit down, gather my thoughts, and share this honor with you. I was asked to join the Litblog Co-Op and, of course, I accepted immediately. This is [...]

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I’ve mentioned this book before, but my full-length review of Gavin Newsham’s Once in a Lifetime: The Incredible Story of the New York Cosmos was posted on PopMatters today. The documentary film based on the book opens today in New York and hits theaters nationwide next week. Check out the book review here.

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Well, I’m happy to say that France defeated Portugal in yesterday’s World Cup action. The victory by Les Bleus sets up the Sunday final of France versus Italy.  I’m told that ESPN, which has been criticized for its World Cup coverage, had put Olympic great Greg Louganis on-alert. Had Portugal faced Italy in the finals, Louganis would [...]

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  Bookslut features a great interview with Gary Lutz, author of Stories in the Worst Way and I Looked Alive. What originally caught my attention was Lutz’s invocation of the great brawling master, Barry Hannah. When I was nosing about in bookstores in the mid-eighties, I was eventually struck by certain slim books of prose fiction in which [...]

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Over the weekend, the August 2006 issue of Stuff magazine hit the newsstands. I know, it ain’t The New Yorker and there aren’t any O. Henry prize winning stories in those pages. But I mention it because I did some work on this issue. It’s uncredited work so I’m not on the masthead, but them’s the breaks. [...]

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According to the always useful Publishers Marketplace, Kauai Hart Hemmings recently signed a deal with Random House for The Descendants. The book is described as the story of a descendant of a Hawaiian royal family who, upon learning that his dying wife was having an affair, teams with his two troubled young daughters to find her [...]

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  I hope everyone had an enjoyable and safe holiday. My 4th of July was pretty low-key. I watched Kobayashi cram down a record 53 and three-quarters hot dogs and buns in the annual eating competition on Coney Island. How do these guys not explode? And just how much do they have to “eat”? Kobayashi must [...]

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