
Here we are (finally!), four weeks away from the print publication of THE QUALITIES OF WOOD! Starting tomorrow, I'll be here and there, out and about, squawking about the book to whomever will listen! From now until...

I was reading an interview with Alexander Payne yesterday.
He’s the filmmaker behind the hits Sideways,
The Descendants and last year’s Nebraska. The interview was with Gia
Coppola, grandchild of you-know-who and a fledgling...
"As soon as we express something, we devalue it strangely. We believe ourselves to have dived down into the depths of the abyss, and when we once again reach the surface, the drops of water on our pale fingertips no longer resemble the ocean from which they came...Nevertheless, the treasure shimmers in the darkness unchanged." ---Franz Kafka