Sunday 6/8/25 A sarcastic wag might say that Brad Marchand can score playoff breakaway goals for the Florida Panthers, he just can't...

Saturday 6/7/25 If you've ever read a Justin Taylor short story, you know it's just him. It's always just him. Nothing is invented, because he is incapable of invention. Instead, it's a fictionalizing of his own life, which really just means the label that he chooses to call his fiction, all of which is indistinguishable from his other fiction. It's all Brooklyn and insider-baseball writing program references, allusions to books that only are read by literature grad students

Thursday 6/5/25 No intelligent person has ever said, "We vibed" or "I'm a whole vibe." No intelligent person has ever said "finna" or...

Wednesday 6/4/25 What are the odds that someone wearing a DraftKings sweatshirt--like the person I saw the other day on Hanover...

Tuesday 6/3/25 On Friday, I began work on a story called "Honest Best," which is a classic Longer on the Inside story--that is, a story...

Tuesday 6/3/25 The Red Sox committed two more errors last night in their 7-6 loss at Fenway to the Angels, which takes their AL-leading...

Monday 6/2/25 Some good and bad things on the fitness front. On the bad side: I'm not extending my runs up the Monument stairs. The...

Friday 5/30/25 A post I just saw: Writers - promise yourself you won’t use generative AI to write, it’s a contaminant, a siren’s call, a...

Thursday 5/29/25 I should know from the very first sentence of your story that it could only have been written by you. The first sentence...

Wednesday 5/28/25 I had a dream that I was in high school and had to write an op-ed on Finnegans Wake . Woke up this morning to an...

Tuesday 5/27/25 My buddy/niece Amelia is graduating from preschool! (Query: Are we going overboard with graduations these days? Answer:...

Tuesday 5/27/25 Sitting outside the Monument the other day and waiting for it to open, I was reading (on Kindle on my phone) Lovecraft's...

Monday 5/26/25 What a lot of variegated work I've been doing on so many different pieces over the past several days. I took that 1000...

Sunday 5/25/25 I've spent the weekend working on the horror film book. These are from its pages... On 1937's Lonesome Ghosts : The ghosts...

Saturday 5/24/25 If you're doing something good that other people aren't doing for reasons that are personally best for you to be doing...

Friday 5/23/25: A scene from several days ago: It was almost nine in the morning and and quieter than usual for that time. I could hear...

Tuesday 5/20/25 Speaking of The Atlantic , as we did the other day , we'll now return to it in a different, oblique manner, but it...

Sunday 5/18/25 The following is an exchange between myself and a professor/writer after they saw the entry yesterday about the emails I...

Saturday 5/17/25 My mother picked up my buddy the other day from preschool. She said, "Colin wanted me to say hello to you for him."...

Saturday 5/17/25 Just circling back to make sure you saw my email below about WordCraft's upcoming launch. I think it’s a really unique...

Friday 5/16/25 This will be in Nightmares Be Damned: Writings About Horror Films Worth Staying Up For . *** Angela gets bullied by the...

Thursday 5/15/25 Like I said, this is really good. It's from "Just Pants," which is likely to be in Become Your Own Superhero: Intrepid...

Thursday 5/15/25 AI wants me to write about "The lost art of storytelling in modern literature." I haven't been working/trying hard and I...

Wednesday 5/14/25 The people who order other people to automatically believe other people. Trend followers, sympathy seekers. Almost all...