by jeffrey | Oct 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
If you are reading this blog, I assume that in addition to enjoying my stories, you have at least an interest in cultivating an appreciation for good books. Some of my readers are old book hounds. They could definitely wax rhapsodic much better than I will be able to...
by jeffrey | Sep 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
Currently reading: Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse OK. So we don’t judge a book by its cover. I listened to this on an audiobook 4 times last year when I had a job that required me to drive down to the Rio Grande valley a lot. This book is SO delicious. What was the...
by jeffrey | Sep 1, 2012 | Uncategorized
Imagine you want to create a work of art in fiction writing. Your topic? The nebulous and weighty matter of Identity. Let’s say you draw from all of your life experiences, your belief systems, your worldview. You bring it all to bear. And when it’s all said and done,...
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 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...
