Author: Alex Irvine
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Cormac McCarthy’s Understanding of Short Fiction Is Kind of Different Than Mine
In this conversation with the Wall Street Journal (mostly about the upcoming movie based on his novel The Road*), Cormac McCarthy says, “I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.” I don’t know about you, but I read that…
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Tie-In Fiction, Orphaned Books, Sick Prisoners, Etc.
Over at Jeff VanderMeer’s Ecstatic Days, there was an interesting conversation about genre and tie-in fiction. As someone who has written quite a bit of both, I found the points raised both familiar and interesting all over again. Here’s one, about the number of prominent writers of original stuff who have also worked in tie-ins:…
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Thus I Thwart the Gods of Irony
I walk to the computer store intending to buy new headphones. I pause outside the door of the computer store, certain that if I buy new headphones I will immediately find my old headphones. I walk away from the computer store, putting my hand in my coat pocket. In my coat pocket I discover my…
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Big Fire from Small Meteor
Apparently the meteor that caused this bolide was only the size of a tricycle. Kind of amazing that five cameras just happened to be pointing at that part of the sky…
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My Public School Gay Sex Indoctrination
One of the primary reasons given for their opposition to marriage equality by the 53% of the Maine electorate who voted yes on Question 1 yesterday was the boogeyman of gay marriage being taught in school as part of a larger effort on the part of those conniving ‘mos to indoctrinate our innocent offspring. This…
Crooked House Fictions 