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Prose off, "Why must it always be such narcissistic wankery?" edition: Fiction in n+1 that's as bad as all fiction in n+1 v. Fleming story along with an anecdote about Nikil Saval
Tuesday 4/22/25 Once, after years of the standard BS from an editor at n+1 named Nikil Saval, who was never going to let anything of...
6 hours ago7 min read
Prose off: What have we here? Another genius masterpiece in Granta put forward by plain-as-the-nose-on-your-face liars in editors Sigrid Rausing and Luke Naima v. Fleming story
Tuesday 4/22/25 Want to do another Granta prose off? Okay. This is from Moses McKenzie's "Fast by the Horns." I'm sure you'll love it....
11 hours ago9 min read
Would you like to see the introduction that the Boston Athletic Association had me write for the Boston Marathon program the year after the bombing along with a story about how it came to be?
Monday 4/21/25 In 2014, I had a short story published in the VQR called "First Responder." It pertained to--but wasn't limited to--the...
1 day ago17 min read
Why there's not much pressure on Jayson Tatum, Dale Murphy and TBS, the bad message that replay sends, and more
Monday 4/21/25 The Rockets better get it together fast, or they'll be bounced as the two-seed by the Warriors. Which wouldn't exactly be...
2 days ago5 min read
Completion of "Hero of Mine," publication of new Beatles and horror film pieces, the Grateful Dead and Easter
Sunday 4/20/25 To write something so simple that it's more complex than anything else could be. To write something that everyone can...
2 days ago4 min read
Unsold op-ed about Easter, presence, and a J.S. Bach oratorio
Sunday 4/20/25 I don't like to put these unmoved op-ed up on here, preferring not to include full pieces in this record. You can't just...
3 days ago5 min read
Thirty fascinating stats, oddities, facts, curios, notes, observations, considerations, ironies, improbabilities, and singular achievements from the back corridors of the mind of a baseball historian
Saturday 4/19/25 * The MVP became what we know it as today starting in 1931 (before that you couldn't win what was called the MVP in...
4 days ago10 min read
A visit from Boston Police
Friday 4/18/25 I was asleep last night when there was a loud knock at the door and the words, "Boston Police." Fun. Opened the door in my...
5 days ago4 min read
From letters
Thursday 4/17/25 These were all to different people. Just things of the week. ////// The following is good. But I'll preface it with an...
5 days ago3 min read
Why sports entries have fewer readers
Thursday 4/17/25 What about a sports-based example that reveals in microcosm how the world now works and the principle--the...
5 days ago10 min read
Stairs intelligence test
Monday 4/14/25 People wanting to show they're smart by referencing Edgar Allan Poe and they can't even spell his name right. People...
Apr 146 min read
An empathetic beating
Monday 4/14/25 Observed today. *** "Welcome to my journey." Your journey towards what? The next post of a photo you took of yourself? The...
Apr 143 min read
The cloaking agent of darkness
Sunday 4/13/25 If you say publicly and express it clearly what a person who is ultimately reliant on the ignorance and apathy of others...
Apr 133 min read
What do you know: It's the same old Boston Red Sox through sixteen games. Who could have seen that coming?
Sunday 4/13/25 Alex Cora is the perfect manager for a team that could win 100 games without him. The Red Sox lost again yesterday to the...
Apr 135 min read
Avian life and death on the road to the station
Saturday 4/12/25 Days without stair running. Not good. Got up late today--five in the AM--and then was at the desk straight until three...
Apr 124 min read
Some insight into the mind and moral character of Joshua Boger, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated founder + member of the board of fellows of Harvard Medical and Celebrity Series executive board
Wednesday 4/9/25 It's interesting how unintelligent some supposedly smart people really are, and how entitled people of prodigious means...
Apr 95 min read
You have to come back
Wednesday 4/9/25 This is good. From a piece that I started today. Likely will finish tomorrow. Ten minutes of moving the fingers. *** The...
Apr 94 min read
Prose off, Why does what you people publish always have to suck? edition: Story in The Paris Review selected for publication by tote bag saleswomen Emily Stokes v. Fleming story
Wednesday 4/9/25 It's always easy to click on any work of fiction from The Paris Review and copy and paste any part of it for one of...
Apr 910 min read
Let's think about this
Wednesday 4/9/25 When I listen to just about anyone talk about just about anything, I think that there is now next to no one who knows...
Apr 96 min read
Prose off, "Here's a sentence w/more in it than everything by these people combined" edition: Standard One Story tripe put forward by human affectations Patrick Ryan and Will Allison v. Fleming story
Tuesday 4/8/25 Been working this morning on "Hero of Mine"--which could both be understood by a five-year-old and thought about deeply...
Apr 812 min read
Everything has to get to the mark
Tuesday 4/8/25 My niece Lilah had a sleepover at Grammie's Saturday night--just her. Pretty exciting! She has been feeling, I'm told,...
Apr 84 min read
Box of cocktails
Monday 4/7/25 A person can say just about anything they want if people don't or won't see the evidence. And that's what people do. In a...
Apr 76 min read
Gary Dunning and Nicole Taney of the Celebrity Series of Boston: Two people who don't object to the mocking of the disabled
Saturday 4/5/25 Just entering this into the record. David Sedaris, mocker of disabled people who believes they shouldn't have jobs if he...
Apr 53 min read
Grateful Dead audience tapes, stories, M.R. James on the BBC, buddy/Meriwether Lewis
Friday 4/4/25 My mother told me yesterday that she was going to lunch with a certain someone I knew, and when I asked if that someone was...
Apr 44 min read
"Heroism is endurance for one moment more."
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