March | 2013 | James Brega: What I Write Instead of Nothing

James Brega: What I Write Instead of Nothing

Have you ever driven up the California coast from San Luis Obispo to Monterey, knuckles white on the steering wheel as you fight for control of the car through hairpin curves? Have you ever dreamed that you had murdered someone and, upon waking, been unable to shake the conviction that it was true? Have you ever sung onstage to a packed audience, been robbed at gunpoint by a ten-year-old, laughed when it seemed— for a moment—that a famous author had stolen your mojo, wondered why we don’t drive steam-powered automobiles, or confronted your guardian angel at high tide on a gay beach once claimed by Pilgrims ? In What I Say Instead of Nothing, James Brega invites you to explore his real, imagined, and re-imagined experiences through his collected essays and short stories—a journey that will feed your nostalgia for life at the end of the twentieth century and remind you how desperately you wish that a great deal of it had never happened.

More news about the journal Plenitude

March 25, 2013

I just heard that the second issue of the Canadian literary journal Plenitude (containing my story “Five Years and Four Months”) is the subject of a feature story in the newspaper Xtra!, the oldest and largest national LGBT newspaper in Canada. The article’s focus is on how Plenitude provides a new creative writing outlet for Canadians, so, not surprisingly, my story isn’t mentioned. Still good publicity. “Though only in its second issue,” the news story says, ” the magazine has already earned well-deserved attention locally and beyond, with people accessing it from all over the world.”