Randal Eldon GreeneI Landed a Publisher Without Even TryingThis is not advice. This is simply what happened. It’s a story about obsession. And it’s a story that ends with me landing a publisher.Mar 3, 2023Mar 3, 2023
Randal Eldon GreeneinThe JunctionFor When No One Does Social Distancing AnymoreWhy in the world did I ever let another human being within six feet of me? Unless, of course, maybe we were going to make potential love…Jun 25, 20211Jun 25, 20211
Randal Eldon GreeneUnpopular Opinion: Slaughterhouse-Five is a Bad NovelUnpopular Opinion: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five is a bad novel. While taste is subjective when it comes to classics of all stripes…May 16, 2021May 16, 2021
Randal Eldon GreeneNazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño is a book of sly humor and dry wit.In some ways, Nazi Literature feels like a counter-mythos to famous writer salons, though the authors surveyed in the biographical catalog…Dec 29, 2020Dec 29, 2020
Randal Eldon GreeneCharles Dickens short novel A Christmas Carol is the perfect book for the holiday season.He paints spirts stranger than anything film has yet reproduced. . . .the figure itself fluctuated in its distinctness: being now a thing…Dec 15, 2020Dec 15, 2020
Randal Eldon GreeneRalph Ellison’s Invisible Man is a novel written as much for our time as for his 1950’s America.What brings this book to life though for us contemporary readers won’t be the parallels to our era of social unrest, but the unnamed…Dec 9, 2020Dec 9, 2020
Randal Eldon GreeneHow do you read today’s books without a passing familiarity with the classics?All the best contemporary writers allude to these timeless tomes constantly. And I’m continually finding more depth in the classics to…Dec 7, 2020Dec 7, 2020
Randal Eldon GreeneinCRY MagazineRemembering to Celebrate Our SuccessesIn the lives of ambitious and creative people, the view is often forward. The view, in fact, is often tunnel-visioned in the sense of the…Dec 23, 2019Dec 23, 2019
Randal Eldon GreeneinAscent PublicationReflections on a Decade-long Journey to Getting a Flash Fiction Story PublishedThis story took a long time to place. I don’t think it took so long because it was poorly written. In fact, I’ve had some compliments on…Aug 28, 20191Aug 28, 20191
