When Clint Eastwood released a movie called Gran Torino, it brought back haunting memories. Not of Clint Eastwood, or of the socio-economic and racial prejudice that serves as a theme for the movie (I haven’t seen the movie yet) but of the actual car. It was the first car I remember my mother bringing home. [...]
24Feb, 2009
Different writers have different methods of writing books. Some start with an outline and know what they are going to say before they say it, and others write their way into their books and go back to clean them up for publication.
For some writers, content is most important, and literary style or technique is just [...]
19Feb, 2009
A couple years ago I spent a few days with some guys on the California coast, and one of them was professional cyclist Scott Nydam, who races with team BMC and is currently riding in the Tour of California. The small retreat was in a house outside Monterrey and Scott and I were bunking across [...]
