Sunday 3/5/23 A book I'm working on right now--it's about eighty percent of the way done, I estimate--is one that has put a bounce in my...

Saturday 3/4/23 Those remarkable Bruins won again today. Victory number ten in a row, over the Rangers this time. What I'd suggest for...

Saturday 3/4/23 A friend of mine posted the comment immediately below on Facebook that a friend of his had written to him. My friend is a...

Saturday 3/4/23 Been working on this book today. Something from it: The film's first flashback then closes around us. Noir films are...

Saturday 3/4/23 Hi Eric, How are you? Middle of the night and working, as I always seem to be working, so you won't see this for a bit....

Saturday 3/4/23 * Thursday morning, the 2019 story, "Big Bob and Little Bob," was 2100 words long. I went back into it, which I thought...

Friday 3/3/23 An astute reader of these pages--and one with a good memory and sharp deductive skills--could likely surmise with...

Friday 3/3/23 Michael Hordern is in so many productions that I love, probably more, I think, than anyone else. And a fantastic range of...

Friday 3/3/23 The Bruins won again last night over the Sabres for their ninth victory in a row. The NHL schedule is baffling to me. A...

Thursday 3/2/23 Wading back in. Plunging, I guess. Can't let this go too much longer. It has been harder than ever and I have been lower...

Tuesday 2/28/23 Introduction: Solutions and Joy You don’t have to look very far to find someone who’ll say that the point of life is to...

Monday 2/20/23 C: There are people who talk about the blog as though they've read it, when they haven't. Many of these publishing people...

Monday 2/20/23 When you see the word "interface" in someone's personally written bio, you can surmise they have never done anything in...

Sunday 2/19/23 The topic with me is never just the topic, so no boxing in here, but this is another schedule of what I'll be talking...

Saturday 2/18/23 "By 'help yourself' I’d mean to both the toothbrush and the towels, not that anyone would use more than the one towel,...

Thursday 2/16/23 Acorn Man was routinely tinged with disappointment. He was blue. Not actual blue. Blue in the metaphorical sense. He...

Thursday 2/16/23 A friend of mine has two girls. My friend is the rare person who is wholly there for me. There's no envy, no passive...

Tuesday 2/14/23 Dear Remy, R-Dawg!!!! How are you? It is your friend the C-Dawg in Boston. I wanted to write you for your bat mitzvah. I...

Tuesday 2/14/23 As we've seen in these pages, J.W. McCormack, the fiction editor of The Baffler, is one blatant bigot. He is exactly what...

Saturday 2/11/23 A lesson from the Beatles’ “There’s a Place,” the first grown-up song in rock and roll history. The Beatles had...

Saturday 2/11/23 My knowledge of the brook’s existence would establish my legitimacy. Proof that I was no mere faker, no Saturday Johnny...

Saturday 2/11/23 I'm finishing a story called "Your Mother's OnlyFans Page," which takes the form of a letter written by a very awkward...

Tuesday 2/7/23 Radio interview tonight about the in-progress Giving You Everything: A Hard Day's Night and the Artistic Zenith of the...

Tuesday 2/7/23 I had put up some of this before, but it has changed quite a bit. The below is from a story called "Banged Up," which I'm...