by jeffrey | Aug 27, 2012 | Uncategorized
I am reading a new book by Charles Yu called Sorry Please Thank You. It is a collection of stories that I bought on a lark because of an article I read in Poets & Writers. Yu seems like a super-friendly, quiet sort of fellow and he has a delightfully creative...
by jeffrey | Aug 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
My name is Jeffrey Mays. I had another blog for about 4 years where I posted rants and quirky stuff in an undisciplined way, and anonymously. Because it was just for my own fun, and because of the stage of life I was in, I posted a casserole of topics –...
by jeffrey | Aug 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
We are trying to understand what William Faulkner meant when he said that all good writing was born of “the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself.” I suggested that such a statement requires the existence of some notion of a soul. And it’s no good...
by jeffrey | Aug 16, 2012 | Uncategorized
[I will return to my discussion of Faulkner tomorrow. Below is something I wrote about 3 years ago. Enjoy.] I went into a public restroom today and noticed what is now undeniable empirical evidence that men have developed a totally new language used only in restrooms....
by jeffrey | Aug 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
(this is part 2 in a discussion about Faulkner’s famous statement “the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself, which alone can make good writing…” Read the short Nobel Prize acceptance speech here.) Stories that reveal the innate...
