Saturday 1/27/24 Hop Sing is a good guy. I always like seeing Victor Sen Yung on Bonanza, and also in the Charlie Chan mysteries. When I...

Saturday 1/27/24 The other day I'd done that prose off with a story from The Missouri Review, which was a wholly typical story. It's very...

Saturday 1/27/24 So much of writing is math. Went back into "Horny Date" and made one change. That should be completely done now. What a...

Saturday 1/27/24 It is early-ish--about four--on a Saturday morning in winter, and I'm thinking about past such Saturdays when I was a...

Saturday 1/27/24 You watch an episode of The Rifleman and you're taken aback by the artistry of a TV western, and then you see that it...

Friday 1/26/24 A round-up here of three great clips of live performances; one from the early rock and soul era, another from the days of...

Friday 1/26/24 The above was the discussion prompt--or words to that effect--that I saw last night on a hockey history forum, and I...

Friday 1/26/24 Letter someone sent me about David Remnick. Hi Colin, Recently, I came upon an interview conducted by David Remnick with...

Friday 1/26/24 Need to do much better. Work harder, face what needs facing, have the good focus. Deal with what needs to be dealt with...

Thursday 1/25/24 I ran stairs, but it's so warm out that I think I'll go back and do a bit more. Quickly, though: I keep seeing people...

Thursday 1/25/24 You know how this works, but we'll mix it up a bit this time. This morning I wrote an entire story. It's not half past...

Wednesday 1/24/24 If you want to be a great writer, many things need to happen and keep happening. But here are two of them: You need to...

Tuesday 1/23/24 Waited too long to see about getting tickets for one of the BC-BU men's hockey games this weekend. Tickets were quite...

Tuesday 1/23/24 I had meant to do an entry breaking down the baseball Hall of Fame ballot, but I couldn't fit that in, though I've...

Tuesday 1/23/24 Because I wasn't even done. Real time, baby. *** Once his friend had fallen asleep, the boy who later became a man who...

Tuesday 1/23/24 Granta , as we've covered in these pages, is a British literary magazine that is supposed to feature the very best...

Tuesday 1/23/24 Another dream, and soon enough Langston realized he was having his favorite kind again. There he was talking on the phone...

Tuesday 1/23/24 Moved an op-ed. Have to furnish headshot. At least once a month I have the song from Rene Clair's A nous la Liberte in my...

Monday 1/22/24 The Buffalo Bills excel at finding ways to lose by being stupid. Back when the Bills were, I believe, a sole game above...

Sunday 1/21/24 Don't you love what you know is about to happen here when you see the phrase "prose off" in the title of one of these...

Sunday 1/21/24 A couple days ago was the birthday of Edgar Allan Poe--right here in Boston, where Poe went on to build up large stores of...

Sunday 1/21/24 Four in the morning now on this Sunday. Been at it for a little bit. I received another letter about David Remnick,...

Saturday 1/20/24 Was sent this big catalogue to a baseball memorabilia auction. I wonder where they got my info. A 1933 Ruth Goudey, 1953...

Saturday 1/20/24 Some small things from today that I have liked and found warming. Was at the cafe a while ago making notes for things I...