Written thoughts by dead writers, Albert Camus

I've never met my literary mentor. He died many years before I stumbled upon his book, The Stranger (or I believe The Outsider is a better translation). I read this book (and then everything he ever printed) in my senior criminology course. And it's not a stretch to say that if I wasn't assigned that book, well then I probably (for better… Continue reading Written thoughts by dead writers, Albert Camus

When you can’t create, you work.

I wasn't sure what do with this book, fiction, that I had a manuscript of (which I'm still thinking if I should change) called Visions of Michigan, because it's very real and more critical than Adventures of a Dying Young Man, and in that story the writing style is much different and almost makes the main protagonist of both books  almost into a cartoon. I wasn't sure… Continue reading When you can’t create, you work.