Status Update: Reading Lots of Stuff

I haven't had a chance to post in a while but I've been busy.  Still working on the first draft of Creepy White Man.  Cleaning up some early chapters so I have a clearer launch pad for the end.

In other news, I'm busy reading, reading reading:

1) Still working on Dombey and Son, by Dickens.  Almost finished.  I'm not a fast reader, and I rarely can rush Dickens.

2) Harlan Ellison's Watching:  a collection of his film essays and critiques.  Ellison is my current cilantro.  More on that later.

3)  The Redbreast, by Jo Nesbo.

4)  McSweeney's Enchanted Chamber of Astonishing Stories, ed. Michael Chabon:  Just finished this one.  A good read.

5)  Shadow & Act, by Ralph Ellison

Such a great smorgasbord of fascinating writing, I'm having trouble sticking with one dish.

Plus I'm busy thinking lots and lots of about writing process, so hopefully soon I'll get some of those down.

Just didn't want anyone to think I'd dropped off the face of the planet.