J. Mark Bertrand

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  • J. Mark Bertrand is the author of Back on Murder, Pattern of Wounds, and the forthcoming Nothing to Hide, crime novels featuring Houston homicide detective Roland March. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston and lived in the city for fifteen years. After one hurricane too many, he and his wife moved to South Dakota. Mark has been arrested for a crime he didn't commit, was the foreman of a hung jury in Houston, and after relocating served on the jury that acquitted Vinnie Jones of assault. In 1972, he won an honorable mention in a child modeling contest, but pursued writing instead.

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  • Write About Now is the successor to my original fiction blog called Notes on Craft. The archive there is still online and dates from March 2004 to September 2007. Feel free to explore it at your leisure.
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April 14, 2009

White Whales and Cat Detectives

Deborah Solomon interviews Joyce Carol Oates, and one response in particular catches my eye:

Q. ... Why do you find violence so alluring as a literary subject? 
A. If you’re going to spend the next year of your life writing, you would probably rather write “Moby Dick” than a little household mystery with cat detectives. I consider tragedy the highest form of art. 

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Corey V.

And Lillian Jackson Braun sheds a tear on a giant pillow made of billion-dollar bills.

Posted by: Corey V. | April 14, 2009 at 09:17 AM

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