Super thanks to Leslie, Ed and Padgett for coming through with the bidness, bigtime! “Hollywood Buckaroo is not just funny and entertaining, it’s smart. Readers will not be disappointed. DeBrincat is an author with an original voice, who can be funny and challenging all at once. Don’t be fooled by this novel’s quirky, witty pace. […]
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Coyote Calls
A coyote showed up at my back door at two-thirty in the afternoon. I was working in my downstairs office when he slipped into the corner of my vision in pouring rain. Looking for lunch, he sniffed at the box where the cats sometimes sleep, then gazed into the far distance in such a way […]
Geyser of Gore: Part 2
I collected some birch bark and leaves and put together a little set in my studio on the top floor of the two-story barn. The windows may have been undraped, I don’t recall; had they been, I would have pushed the curtains open to let in the deliciously golden afternoon light. As I removed my […]
A Bit of the Blurbly
On the publishing front, here’s the first Buckaroo blurb in: “If Kurt Vonnegut teamed up with J.D. Salinger to write a teaser for Six Feet Under and The Coen Brothers filmed it, you’d have a sense of the gorgeous, off-beat, poetic, deep, astonishingly hilarious, intimate, touching family of characters that Tracy DeBrincat has created in […]
Geyser of Gore: Part 1
A few years ago, I spent a month at an artist’s colony in upstate New York. The colony was on the grounds of a famous poet, located in and around her original home, writing studio, and barn. There were 6 artists in attendance. Two visual artists had studios in modern quarters that also housed a […]
Confessions of a Massage-aholic: Part 3 The Final Rubdown
When Vladimir got to my neck and shoulders, he said, as all people who rub me down do, “Very tight.” “I know,” I said. I drive. I write. I compute. I live in America. My neck and shoulders are extremely tight. You got a problem with that?! He placed his index finger at the base […]