michael_marano

I don't care who knows this. I'm an author. A well-established Culture and Arts critic. An Instructor of Creative Writing. And I love Rose Estes' Endless Quest/Dungeons & Dragons, "Choose Your Own Adventure" books for kids. I fucking ADORE them. It's not like I grew up on them, because they first came out when I was already an adult. As of today, I'm the proud...
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Used to see Ric Ocasek on Newbury Street, back when it had actual culture to offer. Couldn't miss him, all 6' 5" and maybe 140 pounds of him. In the Avenue Victor Hugo Bookstore, with his '80s hair teased up, it looked like he'd brush the ceiling. Truthfully, I was never a big fan of The Cars. I liked their stuff as catchy pop tunes,
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Stayed home on the Saturday night of a holiday weekend to finish writing a chapter that I'd started this morning. Good call... I really needed that momentum. Got the opening of the next chapter started. Time to unwind with monster movies and beer...

Hey! It was a wonderful moment in my life to be honored with the Bram Stoker Award by the Horror Writers Association for my First Novel. They have set up a site for all the winners and nominees. My profile just went live. Check it out, if you're interested. thanks! http://www.thebramstokerawards.com/first-novel/marano-michael/

Teaching Thomas Harris' RED DRAGON in my fiction class this week *of course* necessitates a rewatch of Michael Mann's sublime MANHUNTER! "It's just you and me now, Sport!"

Worked on figuring out some inverted hoop stuff on my beautiful circus lyra Gwendoline today, with the insufferably fabulous Eileen Little at Esh Circus Arts in Boston!