I’m hunkered down, working on my next book right now. But I have managed to post some new stuff online: commentary on recently-read books by Alice Munro and Andrew Sean Greer, as well as a tribute to the late David Foster Wallace over in my Notes section.

It’s July. My only events this month are musical ones, but next month I’ll be teaching again at the Squaw Valley Writers Conference.  See Events.

Also, the German edition of A Sense of the World has made its debut. The good folks at Blessing Verlag (Random House) have translated the title as Die Ganze Welt Im Sinn, which I think is an inspired choice. It means The Whole World in Sense, or The Whole World in Mind, or even The Whole World in Spirit–it’s that word Sinn that holds those several nuances.

Hmm…what else? Well, I’ve spiffed up this site with a new design and a new publishing platform. Please be patient with me as I tidy up the details, add touches here and there, and experiment with new features. If you have suggestions or other feedback, let me know.