my best friend, the writer...

click here. if you do nothing else at all today, just go here.

it's a link to the publisher's west catalog listing of my friend dave's new book, a series of essays about (contextually) torture, inspired by the abu ghraib prison debacle, prompted by a susan sontag essay that appeared in the NYT, and informed by his catholicism and his copious reading of his favorite literary giants. this is dave's first published book.

dave has made appearances on this blog. he's my college best friend; i consider him family. this is a guy whose endless short story drafts i read in various student lounge-y spaces at notre dame. this is a guy who has been serious about writing since the moment i met him. writing is not just a career for him, it's a passion, a true love, a soulmate.

so, cheers to dave! and buy his book.