by Aaron Gansky | Mar 28, 2018 | Podcast
Due to yet another scheduling conflict, First in Fiction is taking a week off, but we’ll be back next week (and back on our normal every-other-Tuesday schedule). Until then, here’s an old post from a few years ago. Enjoy! This week we take a look at music and its role...
by Aaron Gansky | Mar 13, 2018 | Podcast
NOVEL SPOTLIGHT (Aaron): The Road by Cormac McCarthy I’m a sucker for stories about fathers and sons, and this one is about as gritty as it gets. Set in a post-apocalyptic future filled with cannibals and other darker perils, the father and son must find their way to...
by Aaron Gansky | Feb 21, 2018 | Podcast
NOVEL SPOTLIGHT (Aaron): The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien This is another staple in my English classes. I first read it while at Antioch and fell in love with it. In his collection of short stories (that some argue is more of a non-linear, non-chronological...
by Aaron Gansky | Feb 7, 2018 | Podcast
NOVEL SPOTLIGHT (Pops): The Taking, by Dean Koontz, 2004, Bantam Books, 448 pages in original release. When I think of books by Dean Koontz several titles float to the surface of my mind: Strangers, Sole Survivor, Odd Thomas, One Door Away from Heaven, and Lightning....
by Aaron Gansky | Jan 24, 2018 | Podcast
Novel Spotlight (Molly Jo): Heart’s Song by Aaron Gansky and Kaye Morrison Developing Discipline–Mental Steps to Establishing Habit We started this year of FiF podcasts by focusing on the writer’s mind and way of thinking. Last week we chatted about the “Writer’s...
