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The Concrete Shoe Club

In celebration of the first anniversary of my pals’ TRIP CITY site, I’ve posted a new prose story there called “The Concrete Shoe Club.” It’s related to the recent flooding of Brooklyn by Hurricane Sandy and that’s all the spoilers you’re gonna get out of me. Read it here:

Terrible Minds Interviews Me (plus a new story)

I’ve had the terrific honor of doing one of those “Terrible Minds” interviews at Chuck Wendig’s super writer-resource site. Chuck’s the brilliant author of the brilliant Miriam Black series (which I eats up), and his interviews are designed to get into the  specifics of writing and storytelling.

As such, the first question is always: “Tell us a story”… and so I wrote something called “Where It Goes” for the occasion. You can read my interview and the story by making with the clicky-clicky below:

Global Digital Speedbump

My reflection on a helluva dream that maybe didn’t work as well as planned (at least not yet), this is where my work-online/live-anywhere idea hits that Global Digital Speedbump, the new chapter of TOUCANNUÍ:

You can read the rest of the series here.

Post-Dictatorship Spending Disorder

I’m back in Brazil after two weeks in NYC, and have a new chapter of TOUCANNUÍ to prove it; this one is less memoir and more think-piece, looking at Brazilian’s current shopping fever and some reasons behind it:

You can read the rest of TOUCANNUÍ here.

Velorio

In addition to today being my birthday, it also marks the next installment of Toucannuí over at Trip City, in which our tale enters the land of the dead, Brazilian-style… in “Velorio”:

You can also check out the rest of the Toucannuí series here.

This Will Be Our Year

“This Will Be Our Year” so full of promise; my newest installment of TOUCANNUÍ is now up at Trip City:

The rest of TOUCAUNNUÍ is right here.

Bonito, Part III [fim]

My Christmas trip into Brazil’s wetlands wilderness concludes in today’s Toucannuí on Trip City:

The rest of TOUCAUNNUÍ is right here.

Bonito Part II

Hey-heyyy ERRRBODDY… here’s the second part of TOUCANNUÍ’s “Bonito”, in which our adventures in the wilds of Brazil begin FOR REALS:

Bonito, Part I

The stupid gringo narrator of TOUCANNUÍ (that would be me) heads deep into the Brazilian wilderness for an eco-friendly Christmas holiday with the in-laws in "Bonito, Part I", now live on Trip City:

Nova Express

"Nova Express" just went live on TRIP CITY; it's a look at my first Portuguese "language level-up" and how it came to me:

You can check out the rest of my gringo-in-Brazil memoir TOUCANNUÍ here.