Benjamin Roesch

Author: Benjamin

  • Post #62: Andy Murray Breaks Through

    As my wife can testify, I’ve consumed massive quantities of tennis these past two weeks during the 2012 U.S. Open.  So much, in fact, that I’ve had loose volleys in my hair, top spin forehands stuck between my teeth, massive overheads clinging to my thighs, second serves out wide on…

  • Post #61: Some Kind of Jackass

    I just came across this piece on Huff Post entitled “10 Books that Taught me Reading Books is Bullshit.”  Now, as a vociferous reader and book obsessive, I’m fully willing to admit that I was a little biased against comedian/author Dan Wilbur’s premise, which he’s expanded on in a book…

  • Post #60: A Nice Little Bit of Wonderfulness

    That’s the phrase that came to mind when I watched this short interview/profile of author Michael Chabon. A nice little bit of wonderfulness.  Especially the bit about him sitting on a steamer trunk in his mother’s basement writing on the family’s early primitive computer. I’ve been re-reading Chabon’s wonderful novel…

  • Post #59: False Finish Lines

    Dear Charles, My writing goal for the summer was to finish the rough draft of my new novel Returning, and I’m happy to say that a few days ago, I did just that.  Hit the “final” key stroke on a book that, at this point, is 715 pages (222,500 words)…

  • Post #58: Badminton Scandal!

    Last week at the London Olympics there was a kerfuffle over badminton, of all things.  Apparently what happened is that four of the top female badminton teams (China among them) lost games on purpose because, oddly, losing a game would prove beneficial in later rounds of the competition, potentially allowing…

  • Post #57: Stocking Up

    Excited to have grabbed some new books from Phoenix Books in Burlington yesterday.  I went in to buy one and ended up brining home three.  Oh well.  It’s hard to feel bad about money spent on books.  I’ll let you know how they are.   I’ve long wanted to read…

  • Post #56: Out of Step, Out of Time

    By now you’ve no doubt heard that the Boy Scouts of America, after a supposedly exhaustive conversation and study, has decided to uphold its policy of not allowing openly gay youth to serve as Scouts or openly gay adults to be affiliated with Scouting, either in a professional or mentor…

  • Post #55: Home Ownership Vs. Braveheart

    Last night I was safely ensconced in my air conditioned bedroom, cold beer in hand, recently started epic action on the tube (Braveheart) when the heavy rain started.  I cursed it.  I’d started the long movie early on purpose so I’d have time to watch it all.  The storm began…

  • Post #54: The Path to Publication, Part 2

    THE GREAT FREELANCE EDITOR ROUND-UP (guest post by author Ron Dionne) So I had accepted the offer from Delabarre Publishing to publish my novel SAD JINGO as an ebook, and had withdrawn it from consideration at Akashic Books. I had chosen the Wild West that book publishing had suddenly become,…

  • Post #53: Pre-Order Purgatory

    I have to vent for a minute about the sudden (or so it seems to me) availability to pre-order forthcoming whatever.  Books, music, movies.  You can buy anything in advance these days.  Let’s say you do some searching to see what’s new out there.  Whatever purveyor you’ve searched (iTunes, Amazon,…