Dinosaur Speak

Baseball is almost here. TS

Sebastian Junger, you may recall, is the author of The Perfect Storm , a gripping account of a fishing accident in the Outer Banks region ...

I saw the widely influential Texas blues player Mance Lipscomb in Eugene in 1973. He played outside on the lawn of the University of Orego...

I'm at the tail end of a few projects that are quickly coming to fruition. One involves a new publication, which I will formally annou...

The Armenian-American writer William Saroyan (1908-1981) was a huge favorite of mine during my early romance with writers and stories. Bor...

He began his career in revolt, lashing out at the injustices of capitalism and the blinding middle-class decadence he witnessed as a you...

It’s entirely something else now, but when I conceived of Round Bend Press I imagined it to be a conduit to my collection of plays at Lulu...

One evening in 1979, in Portland's Goose Hollow Inn, Peter Fritch told me about a book he'd recently finished called A Fan's N...

Waiting for a train one morning on 5th Avenue, I fell into conversation with a fellow going to his job at the central library in Portland....

Lonnie Johnson (1899-1970) was a highly influential (Elvis loved him) blues/jazz guitarist and singer born in Orleans Parish, New Orleans....

Somewhere among my papers I have a picture of a drawing Bob Thomas made of Jack Spicer's head, with a cigarette dangling from its mouth...

The music listening I've been involved with in recent months has been very good for me. Like many things over the years of my life, my ...

Terry Southern had the balls to tell Stanley Kubrick that Dr. Strangelove was a comedy and not the oh-so-serious anti-nuclear, muckraking...

The Spy Who Came in From the Cold , based on the John Le Carre novel. In this fragment Alec, controlled by London, has finally seen that ...

(Henry Aaron) As I continue to gather pieces for a new collection I'll consider this one: In 1980 I researched and wrote a series...