Wednesday 3/5/25 Who becomes a writer? Who should? Are there right reasons? Or: Who is really a writer? Of course there are right...

Tuesday 3/4/25 Why does it always have to be so stupid what these people write? And if it's not blatantly stupid, why does it have to be...

Tuesday 3/4/25 In trying to get the News section of this site updated, I thought about Katie Ryder and how what happened with Katie...

Tuesday 3/4/25 Art is most of all that I care about, because in art is everything and art is the only thing that is enough for me....

Monday 3/3/25 With everything I do in writing I'm thinking about the reader. There is never a time when I think of anything else before...

Sunday 3/2/25 Downloaded the audio of the four and a half hour interview John Lennon gave on December 8, 1970. December 8 was a big...

Sunday 3/2/25 Portions of three letters, the first two from Wednesday, the third from today. *** "One of them I wrote yesterday, worked...

Saturday 3/1/25 J.D. Vance is forty? That is incredible to me. He looks like hell. A jog, maybe? Kale? I really thought he had to be late...

Friday 2/28/25 "Why are you calling me?" usually sounds accusatory but it can just be a question. The person hearing it is almost certain...

Thursday 2/27/25 I need to work so much harder and with greater efficiency and consistency. What I'm doing now will produce matchless...

Wednesday 2/26/25 Running around getting various things tended to, but I saw the news that Jeff Bezos--a spectacularly bad...

Wednesday 2/26/25 The BC men's hockey team is back atop the national rankings again. Last year's squad had more depth and high-end...

Wednesday 2/26/25 Some classic dramatic radio programs can sound silly to people listening seventy years later. There are hokey touches,...

Wednesday 2/26/25 This world is an ugly, awful place. It is a torturous place in which to be if one is intelligent and decent. The more...

Tuesday 2/25/25 I wake up hours before sunrise and the first thing I often do before getting to the desk is take a quick look at the...

Monday 2/24/25 Ran five circuits of stairs in the Monument on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and then 5000 at City Hall...

Sunday 2/23/25 Five in the morning on a Sunday and crying on account of "Hero of Mine" after stepping back from it for a few days and...

Saturday 2/22/25 The term "experimental fiction" is used by people who have no ability to write and are attempting to cover that up while...

Saturday 2/22/25 Regarding most people: It's their error but it'll be someone else's fault. Typically, people only want to talk about...

Friday 2/21/25 We've spoken about One Story before in some of these prose offs , and we'll be getting more into their editor, Patrick...

Thursday 2/20/25 I saw this video online about a large turtle who was unhappy. Actually, he was pretty angry. He didn't like his life....

Wednesday 2/19/25 Quite a few new stories are about to be finished here, so this morning I thought I'd head on over to Granta , home of...

Wednesday 2/19/25 People talk like they're going to die forty or fifty years before they're statistically likely to (even as people in...

Tuesday 2/18/25 It Came from Beneath the Sea  (Robert Gordon; 1955) is a strange movie with a solid ten or so unintentionally funny...