Matt Maxwell's Blog: Highway 62 on Goodreads

I’m not particularly good at this. As it’s neither a formal essay nor an informal response to a piece of writing, I don’t exactly know where to start. So I’ll just keep writing until something catches, perhaps a piece of friction between two words sparks something. Bear with me. This is essential in apprehending the subjects we’re going to take a look at in this piece. A word of background on me, or at least some attempt at explanation. One of the areas of study I found myself enmeshed in...

Spent last weekend in a flux state, passing through more than couple interzones at a time. Saturday anniversary. Yes, I chose the wedding date. And I didn't. It was the first night we happened to get together, back in [redacted]. So yes, I decided to make that our wedding date as well even though it happens to fall upon Day of the Dead and All Souls Day and Samhain and I bet I'm missing a couple others in there. We've been married a good long time, together longer even than that. I wouldn't...

Long couple weeks, folks. Back from a draining and not reinvigorating trip to LA and straight into the wall of Birthday. Then straight into a weekend in the hospital for someone close and anxiety whether or not that would impact their upcoming surgery (essential and required for any manner of daily quality of life) and that went all day and we're still in the recovery phase. Lots of demands on time and energy. Just cleaning the goddamn house. Laundry. Cooking. Cleaning. Caretaking. I'm very...

Yeah, I guess that title has broad application these days. Maybe too much so. Drove down to Los Angeles last week. Normally that's a thing that I'm excited about. I'm not there often enough for my tastes, as most of my friends are down there and I'm some three hundred plus miles to the north as the Challenger drives. I was driving down this time because there was one fewer of them to visit and it was time to say goodbye. Only I wasn't there yet and not clear on when I'm gonna be. I won't be...

Bob's in Toluca Lake This comes in several different parts, all imperfectly melded together. Maybe you'll see the seams in these...

Back in 2017, Chris Barrus and Kaleb Horton started up a group project, a fictional Twitter account with posts from and about the...

Wrote this one yesterday, didn't get to posting it then. --- Time to write. Also time to watch kittens, under four months of age, maybe...

Been a couple weeks, yeah. Maybe there's a lot to say all pent up in there. Maybe it's just been things happening while everyone around...

Here's the new intro for the Hazeland books, as seen in Shadow and Silence, the collection that just dropped today. I'm putting it here...

Hey, I’ve got a new book out. Okay, not a new new book, but collection of all the Hazeland work so far that’s been published. Nearly 700...