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Since Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl released, questions have been rolling in. These questions have come in a barrage, and so I’m going to respond in a barrage (at least to the most reoccurring of them–and to one or two that were just fun).
1. Were you inspired to write this book by Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz?
A. No. I’ve actually never read any of Miller’s stuff. I have Read the rest of this entry »
So, I have a new book out. It’s not for kids. At least it’s not for kids in the traditional Disney-Channel-no-inappropriate-material sense. There is plenty of inappropriate material, because it is a book about the world and, well, the world is typically inappropriate (and if you’ve ever watched footage of slugs mating, you know what I mean). The book is called Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl, and it is a collection of creative non-fiction essays and sketches arranged (structurally and thematically) around the seasons. And the seasons are just the different quartiles of space through which this freakishly tiny sphere of ours does its circular zipping.
In high school and then college and then graduate school, I never focused on the study of creative writing. Read the rest of this entry »
Check it out, yo.
Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl trailer from Gorilla Poet Productions on Vimeo.