Thursday 9/15/22 In the early autumn, I was heading back into the city of Boston on the subway from a leafy suburb where I had watched a...

Wednesday 9/14/22 The op-ed and Beatles writings sections are up to date on the site. When a writer begins talking about their agent,...

Wednesday 9/14/22 Variety. This is a record of all things variety. Sports entry. What the Patriots were for two decades is over and long...

Wednesday 9/14/22 This time she had blood coming from her left eye. “Look at that,” Hovan whispered to Jenkins, as they both stood at the...

Wednesday 9/14/22 Her right ear was at it again, twitching with a ferocity of life foreign to the rest of her being, like Cynthia needed...

Wednesday 9/14/22 We generally believe that older people don’t think in the same terms we do, as if the words comprising our thoughts...

Wednesday 9/14/22 Things are bad. Does it need the qualifier? Things are bad even for here. They are likely about to get much worse and...

Saturday 9/10/22 We will continue on here with another entry in what I suppose can be a series about how good writing works. There are...

Saturday 9/10/22 “Don’t pretend it’s not exciting,” one leaf communicated to another leaf in the manner leaves do, with a tearing of an...

Friday 9/9/22 * How can you not understand that one of the biggest issues in this country--a country gone mad--is the manufacture of...

Friday 9/9/22 It was recently made known--not by me--to Sy Safransky, editor of The Sun, that he was mentioned in this record. When we do...

Friday 9/9/22 Dickey and Leyna lay in the grass talking about the future they had promised each other as if it were sufficiently...

Thursday 9/8/22 Friend called me this morning, gave me a little pep talk with some good advice. Then they went to work where they didn't...

Thursday 9/8/22 Little bit better fight today. Worked more on "Museum Worthy." It's now over 3000 words and I should be able to finish it...

Thursday 9/8/22 We've talked about David Remnick of The New Yorker a number of times in these pages, and we'll continue to do so. Earlier...

Thursday 9/8/22 * The best great season in baseball history that no one talks about: Willie McCovey in 1969. OPS+: 209. For comparison:...

Thursday 9/8/22 Hovan and Jenkins were tending their store as they normally did, each privately wondering—though aware the other was...

Thursday 9/8/22 Yesterday I wrote a 2700 word story called "Museum Worthy." It's not done. Needs work. Or time with. Or going over. I...

Monday 9/5/22 Movies can make us feel like they know us so well. The better a movie appears to know us, the more that movie is apt to...

Saturday 9/3/22 There's a lot of this. But I did figure out how to block out a phone number.

Saturday 9/3/22 In there, for you. Writers write for you--the good ones, anyway. They write for me, for us, for anyone who has come to...

Thursday 9/1/22 * Did 100 push-ups, ran 3000 stairs. * Facebook sent me a photo of me from ten years ago. I look younger now because I am...

Thursday 9/1/22 The first day of September is the start of fall for me. I create a new folder in my bigger folder for that year, and the...

Thursday 9/1/22 * John Rocker is obviously a bad guy. Was a bad guy? I suppose it is possible that John Rocker has changed, but that...