Q: Why are you writing CRITICAL FUDGE as a collection of newspaper columns?
Isn’t that hard to sell? If you aren’t already a name-brand newspaper columnist?
A: Harder than a book of poems?
Q: I see.
A: I depends how long it runs. And how long SCRIB is
Scrib Online is a series of two books, SCRIB and CRITICAL FUDGE.
But if SCRIB is short, and CRITICAL FUDGE is short, SCRIB ONLINE may be a book in two parts, “Scrib,” and “Critical Fudge.”
Q: I see.
A: My plan now is to stop writing columns and finish writing SCRIB.
Five is a good introduction. A good writing sample.
Q: Not much demand for a Professor of Cracker Studies.
A: A literature that excludes the
Scrib cocks a
snook at
That resonates, out in the sticks.
Q: Howard Zinn ended up in
A: He made a difference where he was.
That’s what Scrib is doing in Point and Shoot.
At a home-made web site.
Q: Scrib Online.
A: Yes. Make a difference where you are. With what you have.