Hey. I’m Brad, and this is my blog. I grew up and learned to read in Houston, spent the middle oughts living in Missoula, Montana, subsequently lived and worked in Austin for a year and a half, did an 8-month stint in Ann Arbor, Michigan, two months teaching basic literacy in eastern Oregon, and am now back in Missoula working on a book of my own.
I’ve reviewed books and practiced other forms of journalism for High Country News, Outside, The Drake, Montana Headwall (where I’m now the online editor), Houston Press, Houston Chronicle, Missoula Independent (where I spent five years as editor), Texas Observer (formerly managing editor; currently copy editor) and a whole raft of other outlets, some self-published, a good many defunct, a few you’ve actually heard of. I was honored to be a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow for the 2009-2010 season at the University of Michigan.
Prior to most of that I’ve worked in a decent number of bookstores (some also defunct), from which I was fired far less frequently that I’ve been by the beer bars where I also tended to work prior to attaining this semblance of career.
I’ve collected and sold several small but curious personal libraries in my day, crying out a little bit of my soul each time, and nothing brings out the covetousness in me like a decently built bookshelf.
When I’m not reading books, shopping for books, or otherwise fondling bound pages, I’m likely paddling a canoe somewhere, or wishing I was, or coddling two sweet dogs, neither of whom can read worth a damn, the blind old biddies.
