Best Posts

This is the page where I put the best posts. It’s a great way to see what “The Puget News” is all about (or at least what I claim it’s all about - this is highly subjective!

  • 2/14/2007 - Valentine’s Day 2007: Google’s Obscure Literary Reference for Valentine’s Day? The Googe?

  • This one, which started as idle speculation, hit the front page of Digg and has significantly more traffic than any other post I have ever done.

  • 11/8/2006 - The Puget News Interviews Ryan Boudinot, the author of “The Littlest Hitler”

  • I met Ryan via a mutual friend at one of his readings here in Seattle. He was gracious enough to be my first interviewed subject. There’s some really great stuff in his interview regarding his writing style:

    I try to avoid “overtly going for” anything in my fiction. When I have approached a work of fiction with a consciously formulated agenda, I hate the results. If a reader expects to find pleasure in being surprised, shouldn’t a writer? That’s the attitude I try to maintain. But see, there’s the word “try” again, which I object to. I suppose it’s impossible to not sound like Yoda here, but I hope to honor the art spirit by doing as opposed to trying.