Born in New Mexico during the "crossfire hurricane" year of 1968 , Mitch Cullin is the author of eight books of fiction, including the novel-in-verse Branches, The Cosmology of Bing, UnderSurface, and the globe-spanning story collection From the Place in t ...
The Day of the Locust [Nathanael West]
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids [Kenzaburō Ōe]
Notes of a Desolate Man [Chu T'ien-Wen]
The Moviegoer [Walker Percy]
Wise Blood [Flannery O'Connor]
...and anything by Alice Munro
Favorite Authors
Any novelist or writer I happen to be reading at the moment...
What I'm Reading
Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination [Edogawa Rampo]
For those who are fans of the late Stanley Kubrick, you might enjoy this rather interesting and amazing recreation of The Shining set: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/03/channel4.kubrick
In light of the California Supreme Court ruling that struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage, I thought I'd shine a little light on Scott Bidstrup's excellent essay on the gay marriage deb
Just thought I'd throw my two cents in about Alejandro Escovedo's new CD Real Animal: it's fantastic! As lyrically strong as much of his earlier recordings, this Tony Visconti-produced
This is actually a reply I left on Katherine MacWilliams' blog, but I thought I'd also add it to my blog with the hope that others might want to chime in with their own dreaded "rejection&qu
The always great T-Bone Burnett was on Studio 360 last Sunday, talking about his new CD Tooth of Crime and the Sam Shepard play of the same name, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan, and his love of music
