Review: My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
In Ottessa Moshfegh's novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, a beautiful, blonde twenty-something (the narrator of the novel) in pre-9-11...
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Cam Rhys Lay
- Feb 24, 2019
- 2 min
Review: Only to Sleep by Lawrence Osborne
A few weeks ago, I was perusing The New York Times list of notable books from 2018 when I saw that Lawrence Osborne's Only to Sleep: A...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Feb 19, 2019
- 2 min
Review: The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay
Kurt Vonnegut once famously gave the writing advice: "Make your characters want something right away, even if it's only a glass of...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Feb 17, 2019
- 1 min
On "Aspiring"
My offensive line coach during my one year of high school football had a saying: "Potential means you haven't done shit yet." I'm not...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Feb 16, 2019
- 2 min
Review: There, There
Despite an imperfect ending, There, There is a powerful depiction of the modern Native American experience that's worthy of the high...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Feb 16, 2019
- 1 min
Review: Basketball: A Love Story
The TV Documentary turned book is a worthwhile read for fans of the sport. Basketball: A Love Story is a book, which was spun up as a...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Feb 10, 2019
- 2 min
Review: Lake Success
A book that is probably unreadable if written by a lesser writer becomes passably entertaining thanks to terrific writing. In Lake...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Feb 10, 2019
- 4 min
My Favorite Books Read in 2018
Yes, it's February 2019, but better late than never! 2018 was an uneven reading year for me. I enjoyed many of the 41 books I read over...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Jan 6, 2019
- 5 min
Where do Your Ideas Come From?
Answer: mostly, I steal them. Whenever I tell people I wrote a book and describe the high-level premise, the question I'm asked more than...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Aug 30, 2018
- 11 min
Haruki Murakami's Books Ranked!
In my early 20s I picked up a copy of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles on a recommendation from a friend. I tore through the book and soon...
Cam Rhys Lay
- May 20, 2018
- 1 min
Cover Design
I've been working with freelance book designer Meg Reid on designing the cover and interior for The Childless Ones. One of the challenges...
Cam Rhys Lay
- May 12, 2018
- 1 min
Maps!
For the fantasy section of my book I wanted to create some maps to a) help orient readers with the world of the fantasy part of the...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Feb 4, 2018
- 2 min
On Shipping and Seth Godin
I recently finished Seth Godin's book, Linchpin, which was the second Godin book I read (the first being the more recently released, The...
Cam Rhys Lay
- Jan 27, 2018
- 3 min
My Favorite Book I Read in 2017
Several months ago, I decided to start keeping track of all the books I read or listened to (big audiobook fan!) beginning with 2017. In...
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