It’s weird to call yourself a novelist (of some sort) in the digital world—writing in silence during those gasps of free time, hiding pages in back closets, only admitting you’d spend time on such a thing after someone asks you for the fifth time no, what would you really like to do? Novel: what does … More Brave New Books: the Novel and the Twenty-First Century
And all it took was a little Ocean to make everything change, just a little bit. It’s happened before, thought maybe not so quickly. Falling in love with Vancouver happened over months—falling in love with that bay, that bridge, that city, only took a second. We’d gotten in the night before. Having found a place … More 2000 Words for Two Days: The Short Half of Reading Break and the Long Half of the Story in San Fran
When the City of Weird finally forced me to consider what it means to be an artist Road trips are always, in some way or another, a rushed process, taking making-it-up-as-you-go (or maybe more ‘fake-it-till-you-make-it’) to whole new levels: you never really know what it’s gonna be like till you’re on the road, battling the odds … More The Reading Break Road Trip Part 1: Portland
Liam Scanlon 