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...

Tuesday 8/30/22 I am a little drained, but strong and getting stronger. Over the weekend I wrote the entire outline for the book on The...

Tuesday 8/30/22 This audio is up in the On air section of the website, where one can listen to hundreds of hours of interviews I've given...

Monday 8/29/22 By which I mean, with the above, how good writing works. Often what writers do is they put something on the page without...

Monday 8/29/22 The other day in an entry in these pages we talked about J.W. McCormack, who is the fiction editor of The Baffler, and a...

Monday 8/29/22 Fear is a highly personalized emotion, which is a key component of what makes fear fear. A person may be ravaged by fear,...

Sunday 8/28/22 Remy, I was thinking about you last night after talking to your daddy on the phone. I think I probably know your dad as...

Saturday 8/27/22 So we met at the only Joe’s American Bar and Grill in the region. I think there’s a rule: one such establishment per...

Saturday 8/27/22 Outline for book on The Curse of the Cat People I. Shocks Not Shocks The Curse of the Cat People is a unique horror...

Saturday 8/27/22 * Worked on the Elvis piece some more. It's 3400 words now. Worked on a short story called "Same As I Don't." Here is...