Saturday 12/8/24 For a single set--albeit a voluminous set--of Christmas music, the best may very well be Deutsche Grammophon's five-disc...

Wednesday 12/4/24 We've talked in the past about Narrative Magazine , which publishes the same shit all of these places publish, by the...

Wednesday 12/4/24 The Red Sox signed Aroldis Chapman to a one-year deal. I don't like this at all. I don't like the kind of guy Chapman...

Monday 12/2/24 A reminder and a recommendation, because it's that time of year: Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre troupe adapted...

Friday 11/29/24 How about a Black Friday prose off? We'll circle back to Harper's and their now former editor Christopher Beha. Things...

Wednesday 11/27/24 People are almost always reliant on what is happening in front of them to be able to say anything. That is, they...

Sunday 11/24/24 Awoken at one in the morning by drunks in the street. Really smart conversations. Nice to hear such intelligent people...

Saturday 11/23/24 There's a Rolling Stones bootleg called Philadelphia Special , at the beginning of which--just as we are plunged...

Saturday 11/23/24 It's about half past five Saturday morning. I've been working for a few hours. This final version of "Dot" is done as...

Friday 11/22/24 We'll return to the fiction of The Baffler for this prose off, as selected by editor J.W. McCormack. Here we have...

Thursday 11/21/24 Here is where some writing matters stand. Yesterday I finished the new eleven stories that I did more or less...

Thursday 11/21/24 I have felt like I am under siege lately. Everything is going as bad as possible. The few things that had not broken...

Wednesday 11/20/24 These are parts from some of the new eleven stories, which were done as a simultaneous undertaking while on the road...

Wednesday 11/20/24 Everything that hadn't broken down--which was already most things--is breaking down now. I still haven't heard from...

Tuesday 11/19/24 I was having a conversation with someone about Donald Trump, which was itself a conversation about people. I said that...

Monday 11/18/24 I wrote four stories this morning. I'm afraid they are rather dark. But there is life in them. The burning light of life....

Sunday 11/17/24 Back at it again with fiction from The Baffler as selected by editor J.W. McCormack . Reading these entries, it can...

Saturday 11/16/24 This is going to be a pasting. They're all pastings. I just wanted to say that here. I don't need to set this one up...

Friday 11/15/24 We'll start tomorrow morning with a prose off. To paraphrase a country and western song, who will the next exposed fool...

Friday 11/15/24 These are dark days getting darker, which seems impossible, but it's true. Harder to go on. Harder to see a reason to. I...

Thursday 11/14/24 I use a limited amount of images in this journal, because it's word-based. Like a book. It is a book. That's how I look...

Thursday 11/14/24 People are sure going to tell you about that thing they say they don't care about. I repeatedly see these claims...

Wednesday 11/13/24 We've talked about Conjunctions editor, pretentious-fop writer, veritable Sir Soporific, and Guggenheim winner--of...

Wednesday 11/13/24 People liberally apply the word "trauma" with a casualness that suggests they've never known real trauma at all. If...