by Vincent McCaffrey | Sep 18, 2026 | Blog, Novels, Novels in Progress
another preview of the novel What Matters *** This is the scene: it’s a 100 degree day and Jim is sitting on a bench in the shade at a bus stop at Riverview, Kansas, where there has not been a river since the 1930’s...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Sep 7, 2026 | Blog, Novels in Progress
*** [A portion of ongoing novel] Without our poetry, we cannot be. Not as human beings. Perhaps as cogs. The machine can feed us with tubes and shower us with hoses, and pair us off on the internet as it sees fit, to...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Aug 19, 2026 | Blog, Novels, Novels in Progress
[another glimpse of ‘What Matters’] Harry usually visits when he is concerned about something. He never comes out from his lair for the sheer pleasure of the sunshine. He doesn’t own a hat, and the...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Jul 31, 2026 | Blog, Novels in Progress
about novel truth *** The common ground As always, the first matter is where to begin. This is a story of what I believe to be an extraordinary friendship. It is...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Jul 28, 2026 | Novels, Unpublished Novels
a journal in the form of a novel By Vincent McCaffrey Copyright 2025 / 2026 *** At the center of the known universe is the small town of Rumford, New Hampshire, once a farming hub. The original center of this town...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Jul 28, 2026 | Novels, Unpublished Novels
Whatever it takes a journal in the form of a novel By Vincent McCaffrey Copyright 2025 / 2026 *** At the center of the known universe is the small town of Rumford, New Hampshire, once a farming hub. The original...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Jul 28, 2026 | Blog, Unpublished Novels
(from Whatever it takes: a novel in the form of a journal) In a breath of stars Supreme tactician, Geoffrey Donne, having successfully maneuvered Maya out the door for a little privacy, gazing from the field behind the barn tonight, with the sole light from...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Jul 17, 2026 | Blog, Novels, Novels in Progress
[a chapter from ‘Whaterever It Takes’ I asked Maya about a series of words, printed in green, at the edge of a painting on her desk: ‘Lowering, Towering, Flowering.’ Printed in formal Roman letters, as if chiseled there in stone, they reminded me...
by Vincent McCaffrey | May 19, 2026 | Blog, Unpublished Novels
[An excerpt from the novel ‘Whatever it takes’] And this is an average day. The smell of cooking is thick in the house when I arrive. I...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Apr 20, 2026 | Blog, Novels, Stuff in Progress
[A chapter of the current project, a novel called ‘What Matters’] I awoke with the lifejacket pushed up beneath my chin by the water—adrift in the ocean, in the midst of a puddle of whale piss, so it wasn’t water at...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Sep 29, 2025 | Unpublished Novels
I imagine my salvation Being a memoir, a happy re-consideration of human frailty, an enthusiasm for foible, an appreciation of failure, and a rage against the end of time. Other works by Vincent McCaffrey Hound...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Aug 16, 2025 | Novels in Progress, Stuff in Progress
a novel *** 1. With his first mug of coffee in hand, James Franklin opened the door to look out toward the lake, as he would on almost any morning, even in bad weather. He took a breath, as if it were his very first...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Jul 26, 2025 | Blog, Novels in Progress
It is, in fact, a novel in journal form. And of course, something like this is never complete until you croak. But I have done very little during the last six months except re-write. It is essentially the same story it has been for almost two years now, but different....
by Vincent McCaffrey | Mar 9, 2024 | Stuff in Progress
Chapter One: The forgotten order of things This is what I remember. But someone else could say, “I know that place, and you’ve got the names all wrong.” ...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Dec 20, 2022 | Stuff in Progress, Unpublished Novels
The novel as essay (an unnessesary sequel to The Republic of Books) copyright 2024 By Vincent McCaffrey In love, but broke, the sixty-eight-year-old bookseller, Michael McGeraughty, has converted a fifty-year-old camper-trailer to a small bookshop of about 1500...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Oct 29, 2018 | Blog, Stuff in Progress
[If you liked the previous posting, here’s another from that novel, now renamed The Keeper Jones ] The fact of the matter was, he did not like people. Simple as that. They were generally mean, smelly, short sighted, lazy, dull, boring and boorish...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Oct 24, 2018 | Blog, Stuff in Progress
[A new tidbit that might amuse from an older story to be readied for publication someday soon.] April flowers: 2317 He usually wore an Irish tweed cap. This singular fact had become something of a trademark among his friends when sitting in on vid...
by Vincent McCaffrey | May 17, 2018 | Blog, Unpublished Novels
[A portion of the novel A Young Man From Mars, currently being re-written and somewhat available elsewhere in this ethereal site] Recalling any given lecture I am impressed by the fact that Professor Tripp himself was not nearly as kind as his classroom manner...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Apr 10, 2018 | Novels, Novels in Progress, Unpublished Novels
# This is the recovered journal of Griffon Macdonald, concerning his late expedition to the Earth, and what he found there; being also an accounting of some of the other matters learnt during his doctoral investigation, as originally proposed to the committee of the...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Oct 7, 2017 | Stuff in Progress
Wherein I am reminded of myself [Another sip of A Republic of Books, the novel in progress, for your enjoyment] John Yu has been coming in the shop since he was a kid. He is still a kid, but bigger. He went to MIT. He’s at the University of Pennsylvania now, though...
