“Infoquake” Full Website Launched

It’s now six months until the publication of my science fiction novel “Infoquake.” As promised, I’ve revamped the website at www.infoquake.net with lots of new goodies.

J.D. Landis Interview: Jactations of a Former Diaskeust

J.D. Landis spent twenty-four years in the heart of the publishing world as an editor at New York publishing house William Morrow & Company. Now, four years after his retirement from Morrow, Landis has produced the stunning, if opaque, literary gem, “Lying in Bed.”

Jane Smiley’s “Moo”

In “Moo,” a brilliant, good-natured, sprawling satire set in a fictional Iowa state university known as Moo U., Smiley might let you down in the end by refusing to give certain members of her pigheaded cast of characters their just desserts, but it’s a hell of a ride along the way.

Nicholson Baker Inteview: Master or Masturbator?

Nicholson Baker has reason to be wary. His fifth book, “The Fermata,” has just been published to a whirlwind of controversy. Reviews, on the whole, have not been positive (a first for Baker), and readers of all gender, race, and creed have declared “The Fermata” a dangerous novel, an untouchable.