Maximum Fiction on Hiatus

July 30, 2018

Note to readers: Maximum Fiction is on indefinite hiatus while I decide whether to continue the site in it’s present …

Paul West: February 23, 1930 – October 18, 2015

October 19, 2015

Thirty years ago, in the spring of 1985, I had the great fortune to find myself in Paul West’s English …

June 16, 2015

This post comes from Maximum Fiction’s Department of Shameless Self Promotion. One of my sidebar passions is guitar, and I …

March 19, 2015

The following is a draft excerpt from my novel in progress, Housebreaking the Muse. In this passage I present my …

March 12, 2015

Today is Jack Kerouac’s birthday. Tomorrow is mine. Well whaddaya know about that? Jack was something of a gateway drug …