Talking Fiction and Travel at Late Last Night Books

Sonia Linebaugh recently interviewed me for Late Last Night Books, a blogzine about fiction by novelists. In the interview, we talked about Tracks: A Novel in Stories, writing, travel writing, and train travel both in Russia and the United States.

“I love traveling by train, ensconced with strangers boarding and debarking according to some mysterious and personal trajectory,” Sonia wrote. “So right from the start I was intrigued by Eric Goodman’s Tracks, a novel in short stories about travelers on a train headed from Baltimore for Chicago."

Sonia even found an old travel story I wrote about a Paul Simon tour and compared the road trip narrative to train travel. “It was both a homage and an evocation.”

Read Sonia’s interview at Late Last Night Books.

http://latelastnightbooks.com/2015/11/23/112315-eric-d-goodman-interview/

One-Night Book Stands

Late Last Night Books is a blogzine about fiction written by novelists. I was asked to write a guest blog forblogzine about dialogue. The result is “Breaking Bad Dialogue: Be Careful Who You Talk For.”

“You’ve probably heard the advice before: be careful who you talk to. But when dealing with dialogue, it’s even more important to be careful who you talk for.”

Breaking bad dialogue can go a long way to improving your writing—and your reading experience.

Read the blog at the following link.

http://latelastnightbooks.com/2014/12/01/eric-d-goodman-secrets-good-dialogue/