Introductions
About Me
My name is Greg Bales. 
I am an editor by trade and disposition. How I came from Arkansas to this small apartment in Iowa City, Iowa, is an uncomplicated story involving scholarship, love, frustration, disappointment, epiphany, uncertainty, relief, and settlement. My partner K lives with me, as do a dog named Newton and two cats, Jane and Mr. Bingley. Beneath us all lies a network of tunnels inhabited by tomato-fattened chipmunks.
I can be found in several places across the Internet. For several examples: here I am on Google, on Facebook, on Flickr, and on Twitter. If you decide to click through all of those links, you will find me elsewhere, too.
What else is there to say?
- I am photographing all the lawn art in my neighborhood.
- During the summer of 2009, one of my cats was named prettiest cat in Iowa City.
- K and I keep a list of books to read, but she is always a half-book ahead of me.
About This Website
The Blog
This is not my first blog. From 2003 until the spring of 2009, I blogged semi-pseudonymously as “Hermit Greg” at a group blog called Hermits Rock. For a small-time miscellany, it maintained a fair readership and lively commentariat. The subjects I wrote about there included:
- Dinner
- The metaphysics of ART
- Paintings, books, movies, and other artwork
- Celebrity Scientology gossip
- The random stupidity generator
- Labor coverage in local news
- The novels of Henry James
- University press blogs
- The joy and treachery of cats
The list goes on. It was a fun blog to write for, but it lost its flavor. For me in particular, pseudonymity became less valuable than writing under my name.
Subject-wise, this blog is similar to Hermits Rock, with lesser emphasis on polemics and greater emphasis on things professional: the pleasures and challenges of working with writers and their writing with grace, the pleasure and pain of writing.
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