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More D’Ambrosio

“…I’d hide out in the basement of Elliott Bay or in the top floor of the Athenian and in my sporadic blue notebooks track a reading list — Joyce, Pound, Eliot, et al. — that was really little more than … Continue reading

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A Very Merry Tom Waits Christmas

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Charles D’Ambrosio on Publicity, Writing and More

I remember reading this thing by Charles D’Ambrosio a few years ago. (Thanks to Katherine Taylor, who’s guest blogging at The Elegant Variation, for resurrecting it.) There’s a lot that I like about D’Ambrosio — mostly his writing, which I’m … Continue reading

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Editing DFW

The New Yorker‘s Deborah Treisman on editing David Foster Wallace: “David was wonderful to edit because he was so involved with the minutiae of his work—he had a long explanation for every decision that he’d made, and yet, at the … Continue reading

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That OCD Way

One Story always publishes an author interview to accompany its current issue. This is a nice thing to do. (SmokeLong Quarterly does it too.) The latest issue features a story by Tamas Dobozy. I’ve never heard of Tamas Dobozy, and … Continue reading

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