Jerry Stubblefield

Bistra Hristova photography displaying at Grove Arcade

Bistra Hristova, who presented her Bulgaria-related photography at our February 24, 2017 salon, is currently showing at downtown...

Michael Sirois on Research, May 20

Michael Sirois, author of the novel The Jagged Man, suspended his fiction work a few years ago in order to write a non-fiction book about...

The Mask of the Jaguar King

I'm just back from seeing The Mask of the Jaguar King, by my friend and colleague Stuart Warmflash, in a theater just north of New York...

Bill Kopp Announces Forthcoming Book

Music Historian Bill Kopp, who presented our salon event on September 24, 2016, has just announced the upcoming publication of his book,...

What's it Like to Finish Writing a Novel?

Well, of course I only know what it feels like to me personally. And I'm never sure a piece is really finished until it's in print, and...

Peter Gregutt on Traveling Long and Light

The Taj Mahal gleams white in the morning sunshine, a spectacular sight when you arrive ahead of the throngs of tourists later in the...

The Armpit Traveler - March 18th

Peter Gregutt will discuss his book, "The Armpit Traveler" at our next salon this Saturday, March 18, at 7:00 p.m. in the Microscopic...

Is Mrs. Hays to Blame for All This?

You see here a picture of a homunculus painting the stripes down the back of a frog. I first saw this picture as a framed print hanging...

Mother's Fresh-baked Rolls

My friend Terry Beck, a Brownwood boy and my contemporary, is about to launch national distribution of his first two books, A Train of...

A Poem about a Homunculus

Drama boy, there is no need to die. Rather, you may come to this small, paint-spattered artist's table in this small park, and with your...

Midnight Essays