Kicking the how-to habit
As addictions go, it’s not the worst. It’s expensive, but it won’t drain your finances. It’ll eat into your free time, but it won’t compromise your health. Nor will it destroy your marriage or land you...
View ArticleA Raid on the Inarticulate
Stav Sherez, author of the great A DARK REDEMPTION and the forthcoming ELEVEN DAYS (which I have yet to read) posted a really interesting piece on his blog last week (stavsherez.com ) about writing...
View ArticleOne from the vaults . . .
With the publication of GRAVELAND just three weeks away, here’s a short story from the vaults: ‘Amphitheatre’ http://www.alanglynnbooks.com/stories/amphitheatre/
View ArticleAnother one from the vaults . . .
Here’s another short story from the vaults – from deep in the vaults . . . a longish, Gothic tale of murder, inheritance and insanity: ‘Locals’ http://www.alanglynnbooks.com/stories/locals/
View ArticleA third one from (very deep) in the vaults . . .
Revisit Black Monday 1987 in DALTON DROPPER: http://www.alanglynnbooks.com/stories/dalton-dropper/
View ArticleAn Alternative Reality
This, by me, originally posted on http://www.mysterycenter.com the new blog of the venerable Strand Magazine: http://www.alanglynnbooks.com/articles/an-alternative-reality/
View ArticleOne more from the vaults . . .
This short story was published last year in the Strand Magazine. My only ever published short story. Not for the want of trying. So be nice to it....
View ArticlePublication of GRAVELAND
An update of reviews and articles here on the publication of GRAVELAND : http://bit.ly/1bjcrd3 http://bit.ly/13EJqY6 http://bit.ly/11yJiJp http://bit.ly/10WCzWB http://bit.ly/ZyqYBD...
View ArticleA Plague of Words
Here’s a rant I’ve been meaning to have for quite some time. Getting it off my chest will probably do me some good, but I can’t speak for anyone else. Okay. I have too much to read. In fact, I have so...
View ArticlePut the Blame on Meme
by Alan Glynn It’s a cultural meme at this stage . . . that the new longform narrative TV shows we’re all obsessing over and binge-watching these days are like novels, like big, sprawling,...
View ArticleShadows of My Former Shelf
When I heard the other day that Jonathan Schell had died, I pulled one of his books down from a shelf and re-acquainted myself with it. It was a hardback called Observing the Nixon Years and was...
View ArticleA Raid on the Inarticulate
Stav Sherez, author of the great A DARK REDEMPTION and the forthcoming ELEVEN DAYS (which I have yet to read) posted a really interesting piece on his blog last week (stavsherez.com ) about writing...
View ArticleOne from the vaults . . .
With the publication of GRAVELAND just three weeks away, here’s a short story from the vaults: ‘Amphitheatre’ http://www.alanglynnbooks.com/stories/amphitheatre/
View ArticleFour great podcasts
By Alan Glynn It’s commonplace these days for people to declare, proudly, almost defiantly, that their attention span isn’t what it used to be, that it has been shot to bits, atomized, and chiefly by...
View ArticleTwo more great podcasts
By Alan Glynn As Nicholas Carr points out in his latest book, The Glass Cage, automation is gradually erasing the rough edges of our humanity. It’s not erasing all of them, however, and there is hope –...
View ArticleKicking the how-to habit
As addictions go, it’s not the worst. It’s expensive, but it won’t drain your finances. It’ll eat into your free time, but it won’t compromise your health. Nor will it destroy your marriage or land you...
View ArticleA Raid on the Inarticulate
Stav Sherez, author of the great A DARK REDEMPTION and the forthcoming ELEVEN DAYS (which I have yet to read) posted a really interesting piece on his blog last week (stavsherez.com ) about writing...
View ArticleThe Doppelgänger: Watch These Spaces
I don’t think it’s too much of a spoiler to say that my latest novel, Paradime, is a doppelgänger story. The original German word means “double walker”. In other words, there’s another you out there...
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