Tuesday 4/30/24 Yesterday I was discussing the hypocrisy of so many people in publishing, with their talk of gender and sexual...

Monday 4/29/24 I've been listening to Judy Garland outtakes. She's the best. Just so much talent. Which is one thing. But she obviously...

Monday 4/29/24 I have given up pizza, but I find that Pizza Shark commercial catchy, and it's on Cape Cod, which I love, of course, so I...

Monday 4/29/24 We're going to be getting soon to the work of Carolyn Kuebler, the editor in chief of New England Review, who we talked...

Sunday 4/28/24 Just some fitness things. I like to keep it straight. It's been quite a few days--probably over two weeks--since I missed...

Sunday 4/28/24 Advances in the war this weekend. Now it's time to attack and attack and attack and attack and attack. This enemy can be...

Sunday 4/28/24 Discovered some things about David Sedaris which I'll share on here later. If I did any of the things these people do, I'd...

Saturday 4/27/24 How about a prose off before I head out to run stairs? Given that discrimination is so important to Granta editor...

Saturday 4/27/24 Watching the Oilers game last night, I began to wonder if Connor McDavid could reach 40 points in a single postseason....

Saturday 4/27/24 I like that we don't know why birds make the sounds they do in the morning. I was listening to them today. What are they...

Friday 4/26/24 I think it would be impossible for anyone to work as hard as I did this week but I must work much harder going forward....

Friday 4/26/24 Something from a piece I'm doing today. It'll likely also be in And the Skin Was Gone: Essays on Works of Horror Art. ***...

Friday 4/26/24 The other night I was watching an episode of Cannon. It was a show that ran from 1971 to 1976, starring William Conrad....

Friday 4/26/24 Last night, the Patriots selected NC State quarterback Drake Maye with the third pick of the 2024 NFL draft, which was...

Thursday 4/25/24 The Celtics. That's what it always comes back to, doesn't it? Not being ready, not getting it, not enough urgency, not...

Wednesday 4/24/24 We've touched on Gerald Maa, editor of The Georgia Review before, a man of no achievement in life, no ability that has...

Wednesday 4/24/24 I am not sure what I am more taken aback by: How into themselves most people are or how uninteresting most people are,...

Tuesday 4/23/24 For me to find a work of horror art compelling, it has to involve the dead, the supernatural, ghosts, coincidence, the...

Tuesday 4/23/24 Charlie McAvoy is a slightly above average NHL defenseman. That's all he has ever been and all he will ever be. In time...

Tuesday 4/23/24 A lot of writing is about seeing. How one sees something and how deeply. You must see that thing in a way that no one...

Tuesday 4/23/24 Listening to Jack Edwards call the Bruins game last night and thinking about some of the chatter I've encountered lately...

Monday 4/22/24 I think my niece Amelia does not know that I am her uncle. She has two uncles. The other one is uncle Chris. He has a baby...

Monday 4/22/24 I really detest cats, but that being said, I am always pleased, warmed, and heartened when an innocent person or animal is...

Monday 4/22/24 More work on "May Showers." There is no one else who could have written it, but if someone did, they would have been so...