The Migrant Type

• Seasons Now Published 2 weeks ago If there were such a thing as a Writer Genie, I'd only have one wish to ask of it: please make me more prolific. Actually, that's not true. Since childhood, I've urged every character in every tale to ever feature the standard three wishes to simply ask for an infinite number of wishes, but to no...
• Dissolute Kinship Wins Readers' Choice Award 1 month ago This is really a follow up to the last post. The two-week voting period for Big Al's Books and Pals 2013 Readers' Choice Awards is now over, and Dissolute Kinship: A 9/11 Road Trip was fortunate enough to receive the most votes in the Memoir category, enough to win it, which is a great honour and...
• Dissolute Kinship Nominated For A Readers' Choice Award 2 months ago So, BigAl's Books and Pals received 1,400 books to review over the twelve months between February 2012 and February 2013. Now, my math is fairly rudimentary but that's over a hundred books a month. Of that number, they selected nearly 300 to review, so about 25 books a month. And of those 300, they...
• Devil's Tower May Have Caused My Lover's Furrowed Brow 3 months ago It was for you. All of it. Every mile of every road. Every beach combed, whether by boardwalk or by driftwood trails. For you. And it will never truly be enough, each tousled feral cat, each dripping cedar bough, each hardy tadpole in a mountain creek, each fake surfer, each dry phantom tree...
• Endless Joke, Infinite Jest, Interminable Gag 7 months ago Well, this is embarrassing. What on earth happened to all those posts between mid-September and now, you ask? Huh? Oh, that's right, I didn't write them. My excuse? None, really, other than the fact I've been very busy (so, nothing new there) and I went and published another book. Ah... what's...

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