In the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-three, a youth humbly approached his special destination — a little music shop in the heart of his city’s downtown. Inside, he took $188 in crumpled tens and twenties from his pocket. Then the kindly shop owner reached above his head and took down a cherry-red … Continue reading O little axe of Bethlehem
Siren’s blog
A-holes: What kind of writer are you?
I've been away for a long time, my beloved friends. A new day job and the weird, twilight frenzy of revising my novel (if you go into the dictionary and look up the word "palimpsest," I'm sure it says "for an example, see Nick's book") -- it has been impossible for me to keep up, … Continue reading A-holes: What kind of writer are you?
On reviewing and breaking backs
One advantage of being the L.A. Times deputy book editor was this: I rarely reviewed a book I didn't like. Every week, I sorted through piles and piles of new books for only those things that resonated with me -- if something didn't, I wouldn't write about it. But what happened if I was a … Continue reading On reviewing and breaking backs
Nick Owchar 
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