1 day ago9 minSports writingThursday 6/30/22 When Roger Angell died in May, I saw social media post after social media post about how he was the best baseball writer...
4 days ago2 minA story described in textsMonday 6/27/22 C: I wrote another story tonight. It's about a guy who was officially dead for seven seconds after his second heart attack...
4 days ago2 minA log, if you pleaseMonday 6/27/22 I was at the 7-Eleven tonight, acquiring no fat milk for my blood pressure, when this large, middle-aged man from Texas...
4 days ago4 min"The Missing Note," short story excerptMonday 6/27/22 The missing note scudded up to Beethoven’s door, having taken its time, and the right amount of time, in getting there. It...
4 days ago4 min"Fuck 'Em Up," short story excerptMonday 6/27/22 My dad used to say to me, "Never be ugly in your own head." Even at the time it occurred to me that you could only say...
4 days ago5 min"Creative Approaches," short story excerptMonday 6/27/22 I tend not to look at life the way a lot of people do. I'll always say, for instance, that you'd rather have your baby die...
5 days ago7 minBalanceSunday 6/26/22 Was reading Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn tonight. A library in Boston saw the book back in 1885, and then said...
5 days ago4 min"A Scooch," short story excerptSunday 6/26/22 A woman experiences a brutal divorce, and it drags on and on and on. She imagines the tail of a scorpion, long as a...
5 days ago1 minSix Sunday 6/26/22 Today marks 2184 days, or 312 weeks, or six years, without a drink of alcohol. Good job. There is no one who would be able...
6 days ago1 minOverheated C-DawgSaturday 6/25/22 Fat guy brusquely telling his hot girlfriend, "We don't need to rehash that," then her being all meek and overly...
6 days ago16 minWrapping up an edition of the Week Game and beginning anotherSaturday 6/25/22 Let's just go through this for the records as a new week begins. This past week I came up with and mostly wrote seven...
Jun 234 minMore waterThursday 6/24/22 I need to do a lot better than I'm doing, that's for sure. Do better with life, dealing with things. Checking what I...
Jun 221 minAs braveWednesday 6/22/22 Time to get outside for some exercise. It's very late morning--coming up on half past eleven. I took the longer version...
Jun 225 minExcerpt from essay on Hawthorne's Mosses from an Old Manse and the Fourth of JulyWednesday 6/22/22 Most books work this way now, pandering to lazy ass expectations. They’re part of a niche of a niche of a niche, and...
Jun 2212 minBit of the Fisk pieceTuesday 6/21/22 You can put anything else, by anyone else, next to anything I do. And the takeaway, to the objective party, or even the...
Jun 213 minThe white and the blackTuesday 6/21/22 I've written the shortest story of my career, but is it really very short? In terms of the word count, it is 154 words...
Jun 2114 minButtoningTuesday 6/21/22 Returning to formal writing--which I obviously am never far away from--is like getting back into my skin again, or...
Jun 211 minPeople are insaneTuesday 6/21/22 What can you even say? Mr. Flemming I read your article in the Daily Beast about Buster Keaton. I too marveled at Buster...
Jun 204 minEssay excerpt from "Squatting in the Dust," about Carlton Fisk and a lifelong love of catchersMonday 6/20/22 In the summer of 1983, aged seven, I entered my parent’s bedroom holding a baseball card I’d just plucked from a pack...
Jun 183 minExcerpt from new Beatles pieceSaturday 6/18/22 This newly composed piece on the Beatles' "I'm Down" became an eleventh hour addition to Just Like Them: A Piece by...