Writer In Residence. Day Twenty-Eight. And more. Way more. Really.

Here. Here. Here. Here. And here. And on and on and on.

"Tanzer’s prose is clean and clear. He gets to the heart of each scene, each conflict, without wasting a moment." My Father's House gets Murder Your Darlings'd. And likes it. A lot.

It really does. Big thanks to the Cort Bledsoe and Murder Your Darlings for these quite kind, and ultimately, most humbling words. Drinks sir on us for sure when next we meet. Now, how about some excerpt? Excellent.

"Tanzer’s prose is clean and clear. He gets to the heart of each scene, each conflict, without wasting a moment. He also avoids melodrama in what could easily be an over-the-top book in less capable hands. Tanzer also places the novella in time with cultural references to movies, especially. It’s as though he’s saying that in the looming absence of a father, this narrator looks to the culture at large. Similarly, he doesn’t look to religion or some ethnic denotation for solace; he looks to film, which is an interesting insight into the mores of this generation." 

We are so Murder Your Darlings. Quite Bledsoe. Tour. And Spider-Man.

And big thanks to the Bledsoe for that. And this. All of it. Now how about some excerpt?

"I don't know what it is about the Cort Bledsoe that makes me want to talk Spider-Man, Star Wars, video games and nostalgia. Nor am I entirely sure how I am supposed to tie doing so into "The New York Stories 2012 Tour" and today's tour stop.

But I will. Promise. And frankly, I may protest too much, because none of that is so far removed from this tour, much less my obligations to it. Promise.

Just hear me out."