Drove down to Bethesda yesterday for an event at the Writer’s Center, with whom I’d done a virtual conversation earlier this year. (One of the enjoyable parts of this trip involved getting to meet Zach Powers, who’d interviewed me at that time, in person.)

The subject was jobs in fiction, and I was on the panel along with Ian S. Maloney and Nick Gardner; Andrew Bertaina was the moderator. It got me thinking a lot more about the ways I’ve dealt with jobs in my fiction – both in terms of being inspired by jobs I’ve had and in shifting gears away from that.

I also ended up yammering quite a bit about Molly McGhee’s Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind and David Peace’s Red Or Dead because both are fantastic books. I believe the whole thing was recorded, so it should be online before long…