Tag Archives: fiction

Into the Abyss

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

When Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City was published in 1984, it took the publishing world by storm and ushered in a new era of edgy young writers.  Bright Lights, Big City chronicles the emotional, psychological, and spiritual downward spiral … Continue reading →

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Hangover Theory of Economics

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy– they smashed up things and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had … Continue reading →

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Lessons from John Gardner

Posted on October 3, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

Last week when I was at the Baltimore Book Festival browsing through the titles at Daedelus Books’ tent, I came across new copy of an old favorite book about writing, John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for … Continue reading →

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Doomed Couples

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

In 1960, Philip Roth’s Goodbye, Columbus won the National Book Award.  The title story of the collection is a novella that tells of the doomed romance between Neil Klugman, a recent class college graduate who works in a library and … Continue reading →

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Sense Memory and a Boy Scout Camp

Posted on September 12, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

I have always been envious of writers who are able to effectively render the natural world.  I grew up in the city so in some sense, nature is a foreign land to me.  It is, however, a foreign land in … Continue reading →

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