Tuesday 2/1/22 I was reminded today by someone who has seen all of the correspondence, that The Atlantic's Scott Stossel, about whom this...

Tuesday 2/1/22 Don't be an indoor scarf person. No one respects an indoor scarf person. They advertise their preference for...

Monday 1/31/22 It's not yet nine AM. Wrote the Brady op-ed, the Stossel entry, obviously, ran 3000 stairs, strategized with someone on...

Monday 1/31/22 The ghost sits on the end of my bed and sort of bounces, like it wants me to wake up. It’s agitated in the manner of...

Monday 1/31/22 But these current experiences—taking place at a computer rather than in a shop—are connected to the ones from before....

Monday 1/31/22 Scott Stossel, when he was the editor of The Atlantic, dangled a full-time writer job in my face. He told me I was someone...

Sunday 1/30/22 Completed The Root of the Chord: Writings on Jazz's Essential Power and Artistry and also a 2600 word piece on Freddie...

Sunday 1/30/22 To give a taste. This is from a part of the book about Freddie Hubbard. My aim with the book is quite simple--for it to be...

Saturday 1/29/22 Ran 1600 stairs today. Why the weird number? Because I had Boston security called on me. I was out on the Government...

Saturday 1/29/22 Get ‘Em in Your Soul: The writing of jazz and the jazz of writing, and the dance of life. For a spell in college, as...

Saturday 1/29/22 Always awake before the dawn. Don't let a single day of your life get the drop on you.

Friday 1/28/22 * Ran 3000 stairs. Good to be back at it. * Just about completed a 2500 word essay on the 1891 novel, New Grub Street, and...

New Grub Street tells the story of two men: Edwin Reardon, a talented writer nearing the middle of his career, and Jasper Milvain, a...

Friday 1/28/22 Still at it. Working on a new story. I've written about the nature of reviews on here, how there are no real reviews. This...

Friday 1/28/22 * Hot water is back on. Something is off, though. Comes out as hot as it should--that is, hotter than you can keep your...

Thursday 1/27/22 Asshole mcgee EMAIL: fuckyou@you.com PHONE: 258963258 MESSAGE: Wow. Your blog reads like someone who left a copy of...

Thursday 1/27/22 I got faster as I got better, and I always finished what I was creating long before the rest of the class. There was a...

Thursday 1/27/22 There is a person who stalks me named Matt Hanson, who everyone I know knows and laughs at as Junior Colin. He's a lousy...

Wednesday 1/26/22 First off, no, this is not the best gig ever. It's the second night of Oasis at Wembley in 2000. But it does have the...

Wednesday 1/26/22 Something I wrote today from a 3000 word personal essay: I felt like I was in flux that year, as I came up with my...

Tuesday 1/25/22 It's eight in the morning. Have written two complete op-eds today--one on sports being the last meritocracy in America,...

Tuesday 1/25/22 Yesterday I saw a video in which two white women struck a Black man, because, I believe, he wasn't wearing a mask, and...

Monday 1/24/22 Brutal nightmare about Molly last night. First in a while. Ten years later and trauma does not diminish. Awoke in terror...

Monday 1/24/22 Say what to whom. Say why for what. Meet a woman at a fork in the road and make a joke about spoons in the air. Hanging...