Max Joseph makes movies. Sometimes they are short things built around an idea that sticks in his head — and other times he digs into something deeper. His latest movie/mini-documentary is about bookstores and what it means to slow down to read in a hurried world. (Video at the end of this entry.) My First […]

A couple weeks ago, I read an article on The Nation website called The Democracy of Difficult Fiction that I’m still rolling around in my head. I write about reading a fair amount because it’s through reading that I learned the most about writing. I discovered most things about writing through sitting down and doing […]

It was a good reading year, but isn’t every year a good reading year? Since I didn’t write as many Juggling Writer entries in 2014 to merit the usual, “Best Of…” monthly breakdown I decided, instead, to write about some of my favorite books of the year: a novel, a work of non-fiction, and an […]

This is where the unwritten law of the Internet dictates that I say, “Spoilers ahead!” because I’m talking about The Hobbit book, which has been around since 1937. With the book being around 77 years, if I said, “Thorin, Fili, and Kili die in the book,” is it really a spoiler? It’s an old book […]