Nicola Keegan’s “Swimming”

I first read about “Swimming” in the July/August Poets and Writers magazine. Nicola Keegan was featured in the magazine’s “First-Fiction Annual.” I read the opening paragraphs there and was intrigued by the voice of the character Philomena (a.ka. Pip). This was a good thing, as the whole of “Swimming” seems to take place within Pip’s [...]

In which childhood trials rear their ugly heads.

By that I mean, I have an ear infection. An ear infection! I haven’t had an ear infection since …well, I don’t know when. Let’s say it’s been at least 20 years. Possibly 25. Here’s what I have forgotten in 20-25 years: Ear infections hurt! A lot!
I googled “ear infection” because it’s been so long [...]

Priceless.

I was browsing Amazon’s Kindle Store the other day, and I noticed a book that I’d read about in the New Yorker a few weeks back. It was Free: The Future of a Radical Price, by Wired editor Chris Anderson. The basic idea behind Free is that information wants to be free, and with the [...]