Author Archives: Robert Nagle

Andy Borowitz reports: iPad Wins Nobel Peace Prize.
Also, on his twitter feed, he muses, “Someone needs to develop an iPad app that will make people stop talking about their iPads.”
Beepo the Dolphin reviews the iPad. His verdict? “After repeatedly throwing it up in the air with my tail, the device eventually landed on [...] Continue reading →

A commenter remarks:
Apple has negotiated a product-placement deal with the fabric of reality itself. All this week, your friends are required to tweet about iPads, and comedians are required to work the iPad into bad jokes. Obama is going to tape his weekly video address while holding an iPad.

Here are some things that [...] Continue reading →

I know this sounds a bit loony but….
Last summer, Richard Nash proposed a talk about the Novel in 2050  for South by Southwest (SXSW).  The geeks at SXSW voted it down.  Then I thought, these questions are good; why not have the same session anyway and have it in some room somewhere at South [...] Continue reading →

This is part 5 of a 5 part interview with  84 year old Ohio author Jack Matthews. See also: Part 1 ,Part 2 , Part 3, Part4. Also: Jack Matthews (an introduction),  Jack Matthews: The Art and Sport of Book Collecting and On Choosing the Right Name for a story character by Jack Matthews. 
The mobile [...] Continue reading →

This is part 4 of a 5 part interview with  84 year old Ohio author Jack Matthews. See also: Part 1 ,Part 2 , Part 3. Also: Jack Matthews (an introduction),  Jack Matthews: The Art and Sport of Book Collecting and On Choosing the Right Name for a story character by Jack Matthews.
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Short Story Writer Jack Matthews has traveled over a million miles in his car to collect books. Here he talks more about this crazy preoccupation. Continue reading →

Excerpt from Jack Matthews WORKER’s WRITEBOOK, a writing guide for his creative writing students Continue reading →

Ohio author Jack Matthew’s thoughts about book collecting & Robert Nagle’s questions about its relevance to ebooks Continue reading →

Interview with Jack Matthews, Ohio author of philosophical short stories (Part 2) Continue reading →

This interview was conducted via email in  Summer, 2009 just  after Jack Matthews’ 84th birthday.  Throughout  the process, Matthews had  a lot of fun with it:  answers were sometimes full of deliberate misspellings and archaic contractions.  After I assembled his answers into a  rough draft (where I replaced  ampersands in his answers  with the [...] Continue reading →