Tag: writers

• Interview With Steve Aylett

  This interview first appeared on Literary Kicks, May 26, 2006 Postmodern novelist Steve Aylett was born in 1967 in the Bromley Borough of London, England. His first book, The Crime Studio, was published in 1994, and his later works include Bigot Hall, Slaughtermatic and his most recent tour de force, Lint. Aylett’s work has been…

  Bill Ectric

  August 28, 2016

  C. H. Hinton, Charles H. Hinton, cyberpunk, Edwin Abbott Abbott, LINT, Literary Kicks, satire, Science Fiction, Slaughtermatic, steve aylett, The Crime Studio, The Krays, writers, writing

• My Interview with Sohrab Fracis at LitKicks

  “Imagine you have a friend name Rob,” says our instructor at the University of North Florida Writer’s Conference. “If you want to ask your friend a question, you might begin by saying, ‘So, Rob…’ and that is how to pronounce my first name.” Sohrab Homi Fracis (“Fray-sis”) is the first Asian writer to win the…

  Bill Ectric

  September 9, 2011

  India, Indian Literature, Iowa Short Fiction Award, Literary Kicks, Mark Twain Overlook, publishing, short stories, Sohrab Fracis, Sohrab Homi Fracis, The Campion School, Ticket To Minto, UNF, UNF Writer’s Conference, writers, Zoroastrian

• Wadsworth Camp Revisited

  I’m happy to know someone besides me is writing about Charles Wadsworth Camp, even if it was three years ago and I just found it yesterday. Here’s a review by Mary Reed of  Camp’s novel, The Abandoned Room, courtesy of The Mystery File. And in case you missed it, here are the results, so far, of my research. It’s not…

  Bill Ectric

  August 12, 2011

  Book Reviews, Charles Wadsworth Camp, Mary Reed, Mystery File, reviews, The Abandoned Room, Wadsworth Camp, writers

• Good Reading Ahead

  Two books arrived in the mail yesterday! Thomas Pynchon (1974, Warner Paperback Library), by Joseph W. Slade, is a detailed analysis of all Pynchon’s short stories and novels up through Gravity’s Rainbow, which was Pynchon’s most recent book at the time this study was written. In the preface, Slade’s list of prerequisites for studying Pynchon include, among others, Joseph…

  Bill Ectric

  February 9, 2011

  1970’s, Claudia Moscovici, Joseph Slade, Joseph W. Slade, Post-Stalinist Romania, Thomas Pynchon, Velvet Totalitarianism, writers, Writers For the 70’s, writing