Robert Landon Sandy

My Review of The Wilding by Ben Percy up at Sycamore Review

2010-12-03T15:05:00.000-08:00

My review of Benjamin Percy's The Wilding is up at Sycamore Review. Be sure to check it out.

Under the category of Benjamin Percy and Sycamore Review, there are also clips of an interview from this April between Percy and James Xiao to check out while you are exploring Sycamore's content. But be warned, men; after hearing Percy speak, you might not be able to shake that idea that your voice is somehow inadequate in comparison.

Buy Joe Hall's New Book: Pigafetta is my Wife

2010-03-16T14:15:00.000-07:00

Some buddies of mine who play pickup basketball invited me to go this weekend. I reminded them that everyone has things in which they are better off as a fan than participant. This is the case for me with both basketball and poetry. Whenever I attempt either, there is always blood, shame, and people who know what they are doing getting frustrated, so I have chosen to observe both from the crowd. And that's why as I watch the upcoming college tourney, I will be eagerly awaiting the arrival my friend Joe Hall's new book of poems, Pigafetta Is My Wife. It's available from Black Ocean for Pre-Sale, and I can't wait to check it out.

In addition to being a rising poet, Joe is also a heck of guy. I got the chance to get to know him for a year here, as we were both residents/detainees in this little slice of Heaven I call Indiana. Read Joe's Blog for more about the book and the process of publishing your first.

Published! "Switch" up at Tattoo Highway.

2009-09-23T07:44:00.000-07:00

I've gotten several well deserved rejection letters over the past year or two, but now my writing can be seen HERE. "Switch" won honorable mention in Tattoo Highway's recent contest, and I'm so happy to see it up and available. Though it may betray my normal backwoods mentality, the dork side of me was pumped to see my initials used for the URL.

Don't got long? Don't worry, the contest mandated 500 words or less.

Christopher Feliciano Arnold in Playboy

2009-09-23T06:36:00.000-07:00

Oh, the things you will do for a friend. I picked up my first Playboy ever a couple nights ago. I made my wife pay and the cashier held us up with a long talk about that new Fish Monster/Sense and Sensibility novel. For what would I subject myself to such awkwardness? My good friend Chris Arnold won the top prize in a recent Playboy fiction contest, and his impressive work "Light Sweet Crude" can be found in the latest issue. Read his post here and pick up your copy today.

Good to Be Talking Again

2009-07-12T11:19:00.000-07:00

I often feel like I don't have time for the things I want to do. I seem to struggle to find an hour a day to write fiction, but I always seem to have four hours to devote to facebook, online news, and the contemplation of the words printed on longneck labels. This being the case, I stopped all blogging activity and promised myself that I would not make a personal website until I got a piece of fiction published. Well, the website is up and running, and a short-short that I wrote for a contest in Tattoo Highway's forthcoming issue has received honorable mention and will be available soon. I'll link to it when it is up, but for now I'm just incredibly excited, grateful, and glad to be back on the web.