About Vestige.org

I launched this site in February of 2000 with the idea of making a huge, rambling mess of a thing, with photograph, stories, poems, design experiments and even this new fad that people were calling "blogs". Seven and a half years later, only the blog is left, and a good thing, too.

I made the decision a handful of years ago to blog only about literature (and ocassionaly film, although in rare—very rare—intances other things will crop up), because it's a subject about which I am passionate and knowledgable. It drives me.

Right now I'm heavily involved in a project that I refer to simply as Reading 2007. I'm posting a mini-review, or more accurately a sort of impressionist ramble, about every book that I read this year. I have been pleased with the project's success, not only in terms of positive reader feedback, but also in terms of its affect on my own critical judgement, and in helping to keep me motivated as a writer. It will continue into 2008, with appropriate name change of course.

If you want to know more about me or the projects I'm working on you can visit my profile site, AugustBourre.com. If you have questions or comments unrelated to a specific post, I can be reached at august@vestige.org.