Blog Posts by Date
January 2012
5 POSTS
D-day | Review of the day | Climbing the charts | A Big Week | Advertising Jacob
December 2011
4 POSTS
Another Star | Tour Schedule | How to Start | Up the Amazon
October 2011
3 POSTS
Jacob earns a star from PW | Jacob's English jacket | Q&A
September 2011
1 POST
August 2011
3 POSTS
A blurb from Joseph Finder | Uncovered | Public Writer, Private Writer
July 2011
3 POSTS
Nook: So far, so good | The Whitey Bulger book I'd like to read | Promoting Jacob
June 2011
7 POSTS
The Death of Print | Leonardo, procrastinator | Think Quantity | Win an advance copy of "Defending Jacob" | The creative cycle in a nutshell | "And then I saw her..." | Orwell on Dickens
May 2011
5 POSTS
Harlan Ellison: Pay the Writer! | Why are we attracted to crime stories? | Pre-first edition | Orhan Pamuk: "A writer is..." | The Patron Saint of Writers
April 2011
7 POSTS
Defending Jacob update | Write because you feel like writing | Rilke: "The Man Watching" | Three thoughts on starting a new novel | Why do writers like working in coffee shops? | The end of the shy author? | Austin Kleon's 10 Tips for Writers
March 2011
11 POSTS
What Creativity Means | Sunday poem: "Tonight I Can Write" by Pablo Neruda | Blurbathon | Seth Godin: Ten Bestsellers | The Five Commandments | Blurbing Jacob | Jacob's knife | Reading vs. Writing | "The Writer" by Richard Wilbur | Neil Gaiman: Web piracy is good publicity | Good News, Bad News, Great News
February 2011
5 POSTS
January 2011
7 POSTS
December 2010
6 POSTS
November 2010
7 POSTS
October 2010
13 POSTS
September 2010
13 POSTS
August 2010
15 POSTS
July 2010
12 POSTS
June 2010
13 POSTS
May 2010
8 POSTS
April 2010
15 POSTS
March 2010
13 POSTS
February 2010
11 POSTS
January 2010
7 POSTS
December 2009
13 POSTS
November 2009
9 POSTS
October 2009
15 POSTS
September 2009
15 POSTS
August 2009
15 POSTS
July 2009
9 POSTS
June 2009
16 POSTS
May 2009
6 POSTS
Blog Posts by Category
Writing
95 POSTS
How to Start | How to Tell a Story | Leonardo, procrastinator | Think Quantity | “And then I saw her…” | Harlan Ellison: Pay the Writer! | Orhan Pamuk: “A writer is…” | The Patron Saint of Writers | More Writing
Books
43 POSTS
Nook: So far, so good | The Death of Print | Orwell on Dickens | Why are we attracted to crime stories? | The end of the shy author? | Seth Godin: Ten Bestsellers | Shoes | No such thing as a bad review | More Books
My Books
42 POSTS
D-day | Review of the day | Climbing the charts | A Big Week | Advertising Jacob | Another Star | Tour Schedule | Up the Amazon | More My Books
Writers
42 POSTS
Public Writer, Private Writer | Orwell on Dickens | Harlan Ellison: Pay the Writer! | Flaubert at Work | Nabokov’s cards | In the wry | Experimental Writers vs. Conceptual Writers | Hemingway’s standing desk | More Writers
Creative Process
33 POSTS
Leonardo, procrastinator | Think Quantity | The creative cycle in a nutshell | Why do writers like working in coffee shops? | Austin Kleon’s 10 Tips for Writers | What Creativity Means | The Five Commandments | Daniel Pink: What Motivates Us | More Creative Process
Publishing
25 POSTS
The Death of Print | The end of the shy author? | Seth Godin: Ten Bestsellers | Neil Gaiman: Web piracy is good publicity | Copyright Run Amok | An interview with Lee Child and Kate Miciak | Why the novel will survive the disappearance of the book | Not-So-Random House | More Publishing
Internet
22 POSTS
Neil Gaiman: Web piracy is good publicity | Tumblng | Why the novel will survive the disappearance of the book | FontFonter | Writers Unplugged | The Way We Virtually Live Now | Writing Like It’s 1999 | Only Disconnect | More Internet
Productivity
21 POSTS
Leonardo, procrastinator | Think Quantity | Daniel Pink: What Motivates Us | The Cure for Procrastination | Procrastination and the Divided Self | The Sawyer Effect | Writers Unplugged | Writing Like It’s 1999 | More Productivity
Boston
19 POSTS
The Whitey Bulger book I’d like to read | The Friends of Eddie Coyle … Live | West End Memories (continued) | West End Memories | “I have lived alone in the woods” | Life Magazine Photos of Boston’s Strangler Days | There is no sleeping at the Boston Public Library | Photographs of the Combat Zone | More Boston
Odds & Ends
16 POSTS
Eddie Coyle comes to the stage, almost | Oliver Sacks on Mythmaking | Hanging Up | New Money | The Burry Principle | The issue is inequality, not total wealth | Explaining Insomnia | Bill Gates on Energy | More Odds & Ends
Poetry
15 POSTS
Rilke: “The Man Watching” | Sunday poem: “Tonight I Can Write” by Pablo Neruda | “The Writer” by Richard Wilbur | “Best Society” by Philip Larkin | Poem for the weekend: “Strawberries” by Edwin Morgan | “Perfection Wasted” by John Updike | Browning: “a few I value more” | Adrienne Rich: “Prospective Immigrants Please Note” | More Poetry
Book Reviews
11 POSTS
“Madame Bovary” translated by Lydia Davis | “Next” | Man Out of Time: “The Disenchanted” by Budd Schulberg | “Matterhorn” | “Wolf Hall” | “Little Dorrit”: Dickens’ Teeming World | “Tamburlaine Must Die” | “This Is Where I Leave You” | More Book Reviews
Movies
11 POSTS
“And then I saw her…” | Chinatown | In the wry | Happy St. Crispin’s Day | The origin of “I coulda been a contender” | The High-Low Problem | Vita Brevis, Ars Brevior | As if they had been around all along | More Movies
Photography
11 POSTS
Off to NYC | Divers, East River, 1948 | Portrait: Henry James | Portrait: Philip Roth | Flickr Find of the Day | Life Magazine Photos of Boston’s Strangler Days | Photographs of the Combat Zone | The Street Photography of Jules Aarons | More Photography
Art
10 POSTS
Darwinian Theories of Art | Still lifes by Christopher Stott | Drawing Circles | Giotto’s Red Circle | The High-Low Problem | Vita Brevis, Ars Brevior | The Pleasures of Imagination | As if they had been around all along | More Art
Crime
10 POSTS
The Whitey Bulger book I’d like to read | Why are we attracted to crime stories? | A Hangman’s Metaphysics | The Murder Gene | The issue is inequality, not total wealth | Life Magazine Photos of Boston’s Strangler Days | Inside “The Strangler”: Angiulo, Barboza and fictionalizing the Mob | Biocriminology | More Crime
Blogging
9 POSTS
Tumblng | Work, work, work | Bloggiversary | A Facelift | Stock and Flow | Dickens vs. the Snarks | Why authors should (and shouldn’t) blog | When Every Writer Is a Publisher | More Blogging
Sports
4 POSTS
Rooting for the laundry, 109 A.D. | Losing LeBron | Baseball’s Yankee Problem | The Science of Home-Field Advantage | More Sports
My Other Writing
3 POSTS
Boston’s Wonderful/Terrible City Hall | Ten Views of the Combat Zone | The Definitive Boston Crime Novel: “The Friends of Eddie Coyle” | More My Other Writing
