Archive
Besides his books, Bill has written a variety of poems, short stories, opinion pieces, and more.
Why I wrote “I am Baybie”
In 1976, I met a blind New York City street singer named Reverend Baybie Hoover whose early life was marked by a succession of tragedies. She was blinded at...
Why I Wrote Panhead
Panhead is a glossary of this author’s innate fears … a fear of motorcycles, which I have always ridden; of chainsaws, which I have used since I was fifteen; of being...
Why I Wrote Photographic Memory
Photographic Memory is as close as I will ever come to an autobiography. I’ve always felt the need to write about my own dichotomous childhood, though the story is masked in considerable...
Why I Wrote Fat People
I am one. In my adult life, I’ve weighed between 240 lbs and 490 lbs. The publishing trade is bulging with remainders about how to lose weight. The diet industry...