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Prose off: Piece described by Missouri Review editor Speer Morgan as so vibrant as to be "too vibrant"--sure thing, chief, no doubt that's what we're gonna see here--v. Fleming story
Tuesday 2/4/25 Something a writer has to ask themselves--which none of the writers of the publishing system ever do--is "Who is this...
Feb 4, 202512 min read
Prose off: Story by Diane Williams--and you have to give it to her, it's almost impressive how bad she is at writing--put forward by Captain Crony Bradford Morrow in Conjunctions v. Fleming story
Monday 2/3/25 More shooting fish in a thimble--back to Diane Williams and her junk this time. These people pretend to love Diane...
Feb 3, 20257 min read
Prose off: Story by Guggenheim and MacArthur winner Yiyun Li put forward by editor Michael Ray who said Fleming had never come close to writing anything good enough for Zoetrope v. Fleming story
Saturday 2/1/25 As one has probably noticed, lately I've been making a point of showing how fraudulent awards like the Pulitzer Prize and...
Feb 1, 202511 min read
Prose off: Story in The New Yorker by Guggenheim, MacArthur, and Pulitzer Prize winning talentless, formulaic, misogynist Junot Diaz put forward by Deborah Treisman v. infinitely better Fleming story
Wednesday 1/29/25 This one will be enjoyable. We got a beat down coming. If anything, Junot Diaz is every bit as decorated thanks to...
Jan 29, 202511 min read
Everything wrong with publishing: No-talent, horrible men like David Sedaris who mock the disabled and the people who push his work to those who could do with a lesson in artistic and moral standards
Tuesday 1/28/25 David Sedaris is one of New Yorker editor in chief David Remnick's guys. In that sense he's like Jeffrey Toobin--a...
Jan 28, 20258 min read
Prose off, What the what edition: Story from Guggenheim, Booker Prize, National Book Award, and MacArthur (we got an official genius here!) winner George Saunders in The New Yorker v. Fleming story
Sunday 1/26/25 I should start this one by saying you're going to perhaps think I've screwed up here with the excerpt from the losing side...
Jan 26, 202512 min read
Previewing Chiefs-Bills, the Porzingis factor, the Boston Bruins' limited recipe for success, classic college rivalry with classic college feel
Sunday 1/26/25 Conference championships games today in the NFL. I expect the Eagles to handle the Commanders and my feelings regarding...
Jan 26, 20254 min read
Short story excerpt: "Five Blocks"
Saturday 1/25/25 "There is a person. One. It does not matter if the person is a man or a woman because nearly everyone is this person so...
Jan 25, 20252 min read
Fresh evaluation
Thursday 1/23/25 A truly great work of fiction is for a greater good. It's an act of public service. Otherwise it's just writing. And...
Jan 23, 20254 min read
Prose off: Fiction in Harper's that is very hard to compete with (right) v. Fleming story
Thursday 1/23/25 Oh no, what will become of me? I'm putting up something from a story of mine against a story from Harper's , and if...
Jan 23, 20259 min read
Bumper sticker
Wednesday 1/22/25 People do far too much complaining about the cold. You'd think they'd been stripped of their clothing in Antarctica and...
Jan 22, 20257 min read
Not displeasing Lions loss, Chiefs and the calls they get and "dirty" Mahomes, mediocre Celtics, Sieve Swayman strikes again, Ravens chances, slapped-together Sox
Sunday 1/19/25 I have to admit that I wasn't displeased to wake up and see that the Lions were drilled yesterday by the Commanders. I go...
Jan 19, 20255 min read
Live for me!!!
Saturday 1/18/25 Not a remarkable day for fitness, but sufficient I suppose. Walked five miles and did 150 push-ups and five circuits of...
Jan 18, 20254 min read
Everything is a muscle
Saturday 1/18/25 Everything is a muscle. Your mind, your ability to process, to recognize, your memory, your emotions, the ability to...
Jan 18, 202510 min read
Bob Uecker, Mr. Belvedere, and the front row, Belichick the would-be bolter, media unprofessionalism, the pointlessness of the Four Nations tournament
Friday 1/17/25 It wouldn't surprise me if Bill Belichick were to bolt to the NFL, leaving North Carolina in the lurch, were he to receive...
Jan 17, 20254 min read
Ice cream cone on a chilly day
Thursday 1/16/25 I spoke to my buddy--briefly, because she hung up on me. Basically she sat there eating a big ice cream cone, with it...
Jan 16, 20253 min read
Oh no, the rush: Sports notes--the hubristic Krafts and their hiring practices, greatest goal-scorer of all-time, not so fast with Drake Maye, the vulnerability of the "Bombs Away" Celtics
Thursday 1/16/25 The Patriots hired Mike Vrabel to be their head coach, and I don't feel great about it, or at least not how they went...
Jan 16, 20255 min read
Chuck Berry story, Pete Townshend solo, Soren Kierkegaard, record collecting adventures, Beatles bootlegs, grabbing the Grateful Dead, Van Gogh and Delacroix, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thursday 1/16/25 Chuck Berry takes three guitar solos in "The Promised Land," which is perhaps ironic, given the torrent of the...
Jan 16, 20255 min read
The theoretical table
Wednesday 1/15/25 People are usually only interested in themselves, and it is from that truth which stems most of their problems and...
Jan 15, 20255 min read
Back at it
Wednesday 1/15/25 I had an extended, life-like nightmare about my ex-wife last night. It seemed to keep going and going, stretching for...
Jan 15, 20258 min read
Prose off: A writing program short story put forward by editor Emily Stokes in The Paris Review v. Fleming story she received and wouldn't even consider b/c he's not the right kind of person
Wednesday 1/8/25 Emily Stokes , editor of The Paris Review , was offered the story below by me from which you will see an excerpt. But...
Jan 8, 20259 min read
Neglect nothing
Tuesday 1/7/25 Don't rob one book to pay another. Someone could say to me, "Of course you're all about moving forward, you've had a...
Jan 7, 20258 min read
The only thing you need to read about ex-Patriots coach Jerod Mayo and it is very straightforward
Monday 1/6/25 New England Patriots coach Jerod Mayo was relieved of his duties shortly after the Patriots--in what is now standard inept...
Jan 6, 20258 min read
Prose off: The nothingness that is every single Diane Williams story ever as evinced by latest from off of her slop-pile as put forward by crony king Bradford Morrow in Conjunctions v. Fleming story
Sunday 1/5/25 I don't like the term "experimental" when it comes to fiction or any art. It's a term for losers. For people without...
Jan 5, 20259 min read
"Heroism is endurance for one moment more."
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