The Archives
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06.19.10Starbucks, WiFi, and MeEarlier this week, I was sitting in the downtown St. Paul Dunn Brothers coffee shop when Jeff Horwich from America Public Media's Marketplace approached me for a man-on-the-street (or person-in-the-cafe) interview about Starbuck's new free wi-fi service. Part of the interview aired as a segment of the show that evening, and while I'm glad I didn't come off sounding like a stuttering idiot (the editors at APM earned their salaries!), I don't think I managed to say anything terribly profound. In the bit of the interview that aired, I came off mostly as a Starbucks hater without much ...
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12.02.09After #freeeday: “An artist’s enemy is obscurity, not piracy.”Yesterday I "contributed" two story collections to the Free-E-Day event, "the World's biggest celebration of Indie Culture." While I still got more traffic on this site from people looking for the answer to 35 Across in last weekend's L.A. Times crossword puzzle (it's Byzantium; maybe if you spent more time reading poetry and less time Googling crossword answers you'd know that...) than from people looking for free "Indie Culture," about a dozen visitors did download one or both collections. If you were one of those visitors, thank you very much! And if you missed the opportunity--well, for now I've ...
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12.01.09#freeeday offerings: two story collectionsToday only, get Pieces and Fifteen Other Stories as a free PDF download, plus the three-story collection Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny. Click the cover image to download. Pieces and fifteen other storiesThe sixteen stories in this collection explore the ways we build our sense of self out of our relationships to memory, history, and the people around us. They recognize our frailties, and are generous with our dreams. From estate sales to birthday parties, from skyscrapers' roofs to cubicle farms, the characters in these stories grapple with the disappointments and exultations of the modern world. Ontogeny Recapitulates PhylogenyThree tales that are neither fish ...
