This is a picture from The Free Lance-Star in 2013. It shows the site of my undergraduate psychology classes at Mary Washington College.
Perhaps the demolition of the building will finally silence the demons connected with that D I got in Statistics of Psychology in 1993.
I recently had the honor of being interviewed by Bunbury Magazine, in the United Kingdom, about “The Dogs Don’t Bark In Brooklyn Any More.” Bunbury is a beautiful online magazine focusing on the arts, with outstanding photography, artwork, poetry, short stories and interviews.
I had great fun with the interview, which included a lot of thoughtful questions, and more than a couple of fun ones.
As “Dogs” is a post-apocalyptic science fiction story, the editors at Bunbury featured my interview in Issue Four, the Dystopian Special. I’d like to thank Christopher Moriarty and Keri-Ann Edwards at Bunbury for their kind attention to a new writer, and to Reg Davey at Dagda Publishing for arranging this wonderful opportunity for me.
Enjoy the Dystopian Special here:
http://issuu.com/bunburymagazine/docs/bunbury-issue-four
What does that make me? Her Guy Monday? Guy Tuesday?
Nooooo … MISTER SATURDAY NIGHT.
“A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.”
– Albert Camus
I love this quote. (Thanks, Dagda Publishing Facebook page!) I need to remember this the next time someone suggests that the main character in my book is an author proxy.
Or, as my Longwood High School pal Tim Gatto so tactfully asked, “Is Rebecca just you in drag?”
I will plead the Fifth, however, on whether or not any Mary Washington College pranks involved me getting into drag.
This is the nutty friend who went to a party dressed as his favorite character from “The Dogs Don’t Bark In Brooklyn Any More.”
He’s the Army Major and cognitive ethologist at Fort Ronald Reagan who teaches wolf psychology and interrogates wolf prisoners.
And Special Animal Warfare Service Squad Captain Rebecca O’Conner discovers that there’s more to his work than she initially expects …
But that’s cool — because he’d “do anything for a fellow carrot-top.”
I am laughing my @$$ off!!
A college pal and a reader of “The Dogs Don’t Bark In Brooklyn Any More” is going to a party tonight dressed as a character!!
I know exactly what the Special Animal Warfare Service emblem “looks like,” but I have zero artistic ability, so I cannot render it. Maybe someday when I am wealthy, I will hire graphic designer John Celio to get it down for me.
Have fun, Greg, you NUT!!! 😀
Nicole DeCaneo is a lovely girl with a lovely talent as an artist, and she is kind enough to give a few pointers in art education to a Philistine like me. (Cuz if I want to be well rounded, I need to lern ’bout the paintin’s an’ stuff.)
This is one of her pieces.
I am also quite grateful to see that the University of Mary Washington Magazine’s “Class Notes” section mentioned Illumen Magazine’s publication of my “Three Dreamers” set of poems this past winter.
Eric Robert Nolan, Author 