Long one
Saturday 11/12/22 * Been working for twenty-four straight hours now. * Pitched something on T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" for December. *...
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Many Moments More
- Nov 10
- 4 min
Excerpt from essay on Children of the Stones
Thursday 11/10/22 If you were to ask me what group of people on this earth I had the most respect for as thinkers, I might answer by...
- Nov 10
- 13 min
Sticks and bombs
Thursday 11/10/22 More thought given for my transition to podcasting. I'll have to find the time to dive headlong and figure out...
- Nov 9
- 3 min
Excerpt from And the Skin Was Gone: Essays on Works of Horror Art
Wednesday 11/9/22 The reason, though, that Season of the Witch lives on is because it taps directly into the vein of what Halloween the...
- Nov 9
- 4 min
From Become Your Own Super Hero: Modern Fiction in Select Simple Stories
Wednesday 11/9/22 I have a friend who says, “You can write anything, and it will be something.” Here’s what I believe: you make the eye...
- Nov 9
- 5 min
Introduction to No Mercy When We Get There: Stories to Wreck You
Wednesday 11/9/22 Is the Bakery Still Open? An introduction to No Mercy When We Get There: Stories to Wreck You There are all kinds of...
- Nov 9
- 1 min
Copious production
Wednesday 11/9/22 Wrote a 2000 word short story. It's a Christmas story. It needs work and time and the measured hand. But it could be...
- Nov 8
- 3 min
Excerpt from Billie Holiday feature
Tuesday 11/8/22 They both have their places and their common ground, but there can be a universe of difference between a fact and a...
- Nov 7
- 7 min
Mitchell Miller and the Boston Bruins
Monday 11/7/22 The Bruins, of course, have rescinded their contract offer to Mitchell Miller, a twenty-year-old defenseman, after much...
- Nov 7
- 4 min
Quick account of some activities
Monday 11/7/22 Wrote entire latest feature on Billie Holiday this AM. Worked on four books yesterday and two stories. Walked three miles,...
- Nov 6
- 5 min
The life they possess
Sunday 11/6/22 If the characters are real, they will tell you the story. People don't have real characters so they don't have real...
- Nov 2
- 4 min
"Rosa," short story excerpt
Wednesday 11/2/22 Cynthia squeezed the tube of the moisturizing agent—that's what it said on the front—so that two colorless drops came...
- Nov 2
- 5 min
Sadie Stein and how publishing is just so disgusting
Wednesday 11/2/22 The New York Times has a rule not to review my books. It's part of the blackballing. Does this matter? No. Ultimately,...
- Nov 2
- 6 min
Introduction to And the Skin Was Gone: Essays on Works of Horror Art
Wednesday 11/2/22 Introduction: Let Us Gather in the Basement From my earliest days, I have loved being scared, provided it’s the right...
- Nov 2
- 9 min
Accounting for
Wednesday 11/2/22 I want to account for some recent writings. I do so much that yesterday's history is fast ancient history. I wrote a...
- Nov 1
- 5 min
Excerpt from essay on scariest radio episode
Tuesday 11/1/22 Just get up and get right back to it. Constant creation. *** Even by the standards of the golden age of radio, the run...
- Nov 1
- 3 min
Frustrating
Tuesday 11/1/22 It's very late--after one--and I'm still working as November takes over from October, with James Whale films on in the...
- Nov 1
- 3 min
Art making or rendering
Monday 10/31/22 I am loving this story, "Your Story." Working on it some more tonight. I changed some things in the parts about the wine...
- Nov 1
- 4 min
The three scariest episodes of the radio program Suspense
Monday 10/31/22 The radio program Suspense aired from 1942-1962, and even with in the golden age of radio--which effectively ended when...
- Oct 31
- 9 min
Stand up
Monday 10/31/22 Part of a text from Saturday: I wake up in filth to do joyless work that will bring me little money and usually not be...
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