Try, Try Again
Whenever I would read about someone publishing a book for the first time, the narrative went something like this: “I worked for years on the book, but once I got an agent, it was just [...]
Whenever I would read about someone publishing a book for the first time, the narrative went something like this: “I worked for years on the book, but once I got an agent, it was just [...]
After living in the mountains (where there is no such thing as “yard work”) for years, and then in a 600-square-foot condo (where our HOA fees paid for the tiny-yard work and shoveling), Cynthia and [...]
Remarkably, I have only ten pet peeves, which is about 28 fewer than the average middle-aged American’s and 143 fewer than the average German’s. Here they are, ordered according to the extent to which they [...]
Right now, my son is outside, forging a flagstone walkway from our driveway to our front stoop. It’s 8:45 on a Tuesday morning in late April. He is a ski instructor, but the resort where [...]
David's story, "Higher Laws," appears in the current 10-anniversary edition of the Saranac Review (Fall 2014).
David's latest story, "The Romantic Traver Presents: Your Customized Guide to Narcissa" (his first 0n-line story!) appears in the current edition of The Writing Disorder (Fall 2014)
Admit it: I say “teenagers,” and a part of you recoils in horror. They smell weird. They have zits. They have epic mood swings based on incidental events—an exchanged glance in the high-school hallway, a [...]
It’s not as if I were an immigrant and a part of me was Mexican or French or Ghanaian while the other part of me was American and culturally my ancestral homeland and my adopted [...]
Whitefish Review, Winter 2014 David's new story, "Nocciola," appears in the special "Hunger" edition of The Whitefish Review (Winter 2014). About the Whitefish Review The Whitefish Review is a new literary journal based in Whitefish, [...]
(A guest blog written for my friend Lauree Ostrofsky at Simply Leap.) I’ve been an English professor for 30 years, and let me tell you, it’s a great way to make a living. I love [...]