James Buchanan is a 44-year-old writer living in the Seacoast region of New Hampshire with his wife, his two young children-Quincy and Violet-and their leopard gecko Spotty, and his two step children Kendra and Hannah (It's a busy household).
John Irving to Kerouac to Ann Packer to Frost and on and on...
Favorite Books
The Kite Runner, The Orchard, Cider House Rules, Water for Elephants, The Dive from Clausen's Pier, To Kill a Mockingbird, On Chesil Beach, Under the Tuscan Sun, and a very great many others...
Favorite Authors
John Irving, Anne Packer, Robert Stone, Pete hamil, Ian McEwan, Frances Mayes, and all of the other people who have written the books that I have read throughout my life. Anyone who can do that deserves the respect of the world.
What I'm Reading
The New Yorker, a number of poetry collections, and Middlesex (very good book that meets two big criteria for me--excellent writing and very compelling story telling). I also recently finished Seabiscuit and a few other random books and story collections.
I think one of the reasons I enjoy ghost writing so much is that it removes the need for me to select the project that I will dedicate my time to. I am responsible for meeting someone elses vision--as opposed to my own--and the other person has decided for themselves what it is that I am going to write. I am removed completely from the equation.Given my last post, which was about the profound ...
To say that I am enduring what feels like an unyielding dry spell would be something of an understatement. The worst part of it is that I don't know what to do about it. I know that the best thing any of us can do is simply continue to work and work through whatever the emotional issues are that keep us from writing, but it really isn't that easy.I kind of liken what is happening to me in the ...
The other night I was listening to the host of a jazz program on the Boston NPR station talk with Branford Marsalis. During their discussion Branford described another musician as not being a among the "nerd Jazz" set. Asked about the term "nerd jazz," he said that there are many jazz musicians that have begun their careers in the past 20 or 30 years that have been educated ...
