Steve Ersinghaus

It was a wonderful Saturday. Dinner with Susan, John and Maggie, then a trip Bushnell-way to visit with Kurt Vonnegut, Joyce Carol Oates, and Jennifer Weiner at The Connecticut Forum (link to CivilTango). What a crowd, number one. The Bushnell is a massive theater space and every seat I could see was occupied. Yet, [...]

Gamasutra is asking for student writing
As part of its expanding video game student-related coverage, which will be featured on the Gamasutra education homepage, the editors of Gamasutra are looking for new features written for and about video game educators and students.
Some of the topics that we are particularly looking for in order to expand the [...]

Many of the readers of this weblog know that I am huge fan of Franz Kafka. I’m also a huge fan of Milan Kundera partly because of the way he writes about Kafka and Musil. Thanks to Daniel Green’s link to a review of Roberto Calasso’s, I shall be purshasing K.
I’ve always avoided most [...]

Susan Gibb posts on the nearness of otto 2, a compilation of new art and writing. otto has exciting prospects and hopefully will generate lots of good story, poetry, and visual exploration. Here’s the otto website.

Here’s a link to June Noble’s story recently published in Vitality Magazine. In the article she details a powerful struggle against Lupus. June is a member of the Narratives group and an all around good kid. We value her contributions and have enjoyed her in class. A snip
As if on rebound from withdrawal, I [...]

Lisa Halligan’s weblog has been added to the cluster.

Here’s to Susan, Jim, Joanne, James, John, Josh, Kasandra, and Jason, quickly becoming group Fellows. I thank them most heartily.
It was about air and the things we see, hear, and smell through it and because of it. The evening was complex. Facade with the screen covered made for different experience minus the elegant expressions, [...]

Spinning, Susan Gibb’s, is a rich and energetic space. I particularly enjoy when she digs into the stuff on her shelf. She puts up a great quote from Garcia Marquez then goes after it.
This post here, in a different context, is serious writing. Better days, yes.

Just got back from the first public showing of The Long Weekend, a short film by our own Tunxis English professor Patrice Hamilton. It was a fantastic party, with music, food, a big crowd, and an excellent set of introductions and presentations. The more I watch the film the more I like it.
Congratulations [...]

Josh Radke and I have been going on about issues in publishing and the markets, a topic we will be talking about at our upcoming Narrative’s meeting. The conversation has looked like this:
I agree that assigning blame doesn’t help anyone involved. I thought the problem was the Agents. Having read that thread (http://www.sfreader.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1313), it’s [...]

One of the things that I am looking forward to reading this summer is Susan Gibb on Suttree. This is one of those novels that needs sharing. The most curious thing about McCarthy’s novel: Suttree himself.

Kasandra Strid’s novel The Prince of the Universe, a first entrance in the series Shadow of the Stars (which always reminds me of Babylon 5), is now available. Congratulations Kasandra.
Find links to more information here.

As the poem below would indicate, flight is a common motif in dreams. Does this indicate limitation or freedom in the substratum or surfaces of the waking world? For example, I haven’t had a flying dream in a long time. But while young, I’d often dream flying over El Paso at night. This notion [...]

Susan Gibb’s first draft in response to the poetry challenge
The Age of Dreams
by Susan Gibb
I flew when I was little
around the cotton candy room at night,
in and out the windows
with a soft swoosh of feathers
and eagle eyes to pierce
my sister’s dreaming sleep
and peer inside her head.
I’d glide above
her bed
and giggle.
These days I roam through
endless grey [...]

I usually take my daughter to see the big blockbuster movies, so today we went for Star Wars episode whatever.
We left not understanding really why the story couldn’t be made to work. It has lots of potential: mystery, love, the fall of republics. But the story just doesn’t work. The continuity problems are enormous and [...]