I’m currently working on a book about bicycles. So here’s a pic of me off the front in the Stanford criterium during my freshman year, circa 1986. (I got caught on the final lap.) Palo Alto Bicycles frameset (made in Italy by Biemmezeta) with all Campagnolo Super Record–other than the Modolo Professional brakes, which had …
My father-in-law Ned Pugh was sent to Vietnam in 1964 as part of Underwater Demolition Team 12, and was on the beach when the Marines landed in Da Nang on March 8, 1965. After his deployment, he was asked to join Navy SEAL Team 1, but turned it down. Full story in The War Horse
Andy and I are honored to have an excerpt from Radioman published in The War Horse. This is the story that Andy told me at The Old Pro bar in Palo Alto in May 1991, after coming home from the Gulf War. I knew when I heard this story that one day I’d try to …
For anyone curious what Andy and I were reading before and during the writing of RADIOMAN, I put together this list of ten favorites, in order of when they were first published. The Aardvark is Ready for War by James Blinn (Published May, 1997) A great, underrated novel, and the first fiction I read that …
This turned up in a box during my recent move from Seattle to Bellingham. I wrote it for an undergraduate creative writing class in 1989 based on some stuff Andy had told me about boot camp, and it was one of three stories I included in my application to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop the following …
For a ton of pics not included in the book, check out Andy’s IG account, which includes this great shot he took with a disposable camera way back in Quantico, Virginia 1994.
