Friday 1/7/22 Understand the difference between hearing and listening. We're always hearing; we're rarely listening. We can be listening...

Thursday 1/6/22 * Finished a story, wrote a story, worked on a story. Heard from someone who read the finished story who said it was the...

Thursday 1/6/22 A girl asked his father if there had ever been a man who was the father to an entire town. All of the people who lived...

Thursday 1/6/22 Devastating and unreal. You can't write better than this. And the blend of invention and control and sophistication. The...

Thursday 1/6/22 Take a look at yourself, hard, in a mirror once a day. Not because you are fixing your hair, but rather to look yourself...

Wednesday 1/5/22 There’s a woman at my Starbucks who brings her dog a cup of whip cream. She crouches down with the cup and the dog goes...

Wednesday 1/5/22 I have toyed with the idea lately of doing a daily entry on here which will be short, and offer a tip. People will often...

Wednesday 1/5/22 The full story will be in Longer on the Inside: Very Short Fictions of Infinitely Human Lives. *** The new boy would...

Tuesday 1/4/22 I’ve recently listened to 100 or so radio episodes of Dragnet, and it’s a wonder to me that anyone in mid-twentieth...

Tuesday 1/4/22 * About to start an essay on the Beatles. * Watched Godard's All the Boys are Called Patrick (1957). Well done. The scenes...

Monday 1/3/22 * It is weird and annoying to me when someone says to me, "I so love this kind of writing that you do!" They think it's...

Monday 1/3/22 Writing a new story now, heading out for a bit to run stairs. On Friday I woke up at half past twelve, quite cold, and...

Sunday 1/2/22 Friday was that day of the year when a couple people invariably write me and say that come the morrow--the first day of the...

Sunday 1/2/22 I had a discomfiting experience at the Starbucks today. I was sitting there listening to music, reading, with a stack of...

Sunday 1/2/22 There is so much to get up on here and so much that will be happening and getting done, that I will have to settle into a...

Saturday 1/1/22 Ack! I've been thinking about something, man--James Joyce's Ulysses turns 100 in February. The best novel ever! Or that...

Wednesday 12/29/21 I probably shouldn't have gotten the flu and booster shots yesterday, because I was sick and coughing heavily, but it...

Tuesday 12/28/21 We've seen how vile The Washington Post is. Remember Stephanie Merry? Michael Larabee is as bad as anyone there. For...

Tuesday 12/28/21 I'm going into 2022 with more material than I've ever entered a year with. Material in-progress I mean. I am already...

Tuesday 12/28/21 I've written in these pages about what I call the ass voice. It's what most people speak with now. They open up their...

Sunday 12/26/21 Tenth straight Christmas entirely alone. Difficult. Ran 5000 stairs yesterday before dawn while listening to the complete...

Saturday 12/25/21 Vincent Van Gogh, a man who knew his share of pain, had a favorite Christmas story by Dickens that he read every year,...

Saturday 12/25/21 Most Christmas films bash us over the heads with how festive they are. It can be exhausting to sit through another yarn...

Friday 12/24/21 Conceived of and wrote a 2500 word story by six o'clock this AM. I'll finish it later. Unique voice. I have about 500...