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For makers and lovers of books and music, despite everything.

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The Story of DANOTI - Part V

Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy

The Story of DANOTI - Part IV

Local CD

The Story of DANOTI - Part III

The Refreshments' First Rehearsal

New Album THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY Out Today!!!

Physical Copies (CDs) Available!

The Story of DANOTI (Do Anything Not on the Internet) - Part II

The Gin Blossoms

The Story of DANOTI (Do Anything Not on the Internet) - Part I - Television

This is the beginning of my origin story on the creation of DANOTI.

New Song for Super Bowl Week - "Play the Game (Just a Little)"

From My Forthcoming Solo Album "The Day Before Yesterday"

DANOTI (Do Anything Not on the Internet) 2026

Writers are the only necessary ingredient to the creation of transcendent literary work.

The Reason for Art Edwards Appears Large

Why I Do This, and How You Can Help Me Do It

A Review of Selected Letters of John Updike

Selected Letters of John Updike. Edited by James Schiff. New York: Knopf, Oct. 21st, 2025. 822 pp. $50.00. ISBN-13: 978-0-593-80155-0.

How I Found Literature Again

The release of My Iliad Odyssey is an important event for me.

New Nonfiction Piece at The Spectator: What's Happened to the Trade Paperback?

Plus More Portland Reading Details

A Review of Big Fiction by Dan Sinykin

Big Fiction. Written by Dan Sinykin. New York: Columbia University Press, October, 2023. 224 pp. $30.00. ISBN-13: 978-0-231-19295-8.

"It Reads Like Nonfiction."

Why is this a compliment for fiction writing?

Memoir that Doesn’t Have to be True: The Devil’s Handshake of the Autofiction Writer

When I started my memoir My Iliad Odyssey, which is now available for preorder at my website, I was aware of some genres that straddle the fence between fiction and nonfiction.

Comfortable in the Middle: The Hybrid Memoir

I don’t know when I started describing my first memoir My Iliad Odyssey, which is available now for preorder, as a hybrid memoir, but I know why.

Preorder My First Memoir, My Iliad Odyssey

My new memoir My Iliad Odyssey is available for preorder.

Anything But Nothing: Does Faith Matter?

My latest book review at Book and Film Globe just popped up: Miracles and Wonder by Elaine Pagels. This is the author of the famous book The Gnostic Gospels, which in 1979 was the first impression for many of what these Christian gospels—which were uncovered in Egypt in 1945—contained.

D.A.N.O.T.I.

Do Anything Not On The Internet

What's Trying to Kill Literary Fiction? An Attempted Murder Mystery

In January 1998, Toni Morrison appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to promote her latest novel Paradise, which was the completion of a trilogy of novels that started with her Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved (1987).