Saturday 10/23/21 There's an editor at a place I've written for who is lying to me. She thinks I don't know she's lying to me. Or,...

Saturday 10/23/21 I didn't want to sully that earlier entry this morning by including this with it, but it's nice to see that the stream...

Saturday 10/23/21 The Red Sox' season has come to its end, but there can be no complaining. They took it as far as they could, which was...

Friday 10/22/21 The New Yorker had the gall to phone me last night for fact-checking purposes, after years of abuse, lies, and...

Friday 10/22/21 I run a set of stairs each day that everyone in Boston calls the Government Center stairs. There are exactly fifty of...

Friday 10/22/21 I get an easy dozen notes like this each week. They are depressing. Though obviously things of this nature pale to...

Friday 10/22/21 I have a completed first collection of essays. It's about what to do in order to repair a broken self. It looks at some...

Thursday 10/21/21 Everything about the Gabby Petito story is disturbing to me, and it continues to be disturbing. I think of this young...

Thursday 10/21/21 Not so good, Red Sox! But I can't be upset. You should never be upset about sports. They are sports. These Red Sox have...

Tuesday 10/19/21 * The school next door to me got out yesterday, and I heard this little girl obviously wrapping up some big bit of news...

Tuesday 10/19/21 People get divorced, the tales start, and they become gospel so fast—irrefutable, unchallenged—even though the actual...

Monday 10/18/21 Horror, be it in film or literature, often works best in short forms, which is perhaps the most suitable setting for what...

Monday 10/18/21 * Wrote a 2700 word story this AM. Excellent. "All I Do Is Laugh." Unique form. Tells the story of a life and two...

Sunday 10/17/21 Walked eight miles today. Ran 3000 stairs. Today marks 1932 days, or 276 weeks, without a drink. I wrote an op-ed this...

Sunday 10/17/21 “Did you get paid?” my mother would ask me after I got home from Mrs. Bannerman’s house, the first thing out of her...

Sunday 10/17/21 This is a postscript to the Raluca Albu business of the other day. It says volumes about publishing. I would like to...

Saturday 10/16/21 * Let us account for Saturday. * Spoke to an editor at Rolling Stone--truly good guy--about if there's anything that...

Saturday 10/16/21 C: Did you see that Emma Cline wiki page J: Nothing there C: What? J: She hasn't done much C: It's all there, though....

Saturday 10/16/21 We will walk through all of the specifics later. Right now, it is before dawn on Saturday, and I must exercise...

Friday 10/15/21 “And how are we going to feel today?” the girl’s mother asks at the unsettled, disarrayed time of quarter past six in the...

Friday 10/15/21 If you know me, you know that I'm someone who tries to avoid confrontation as much as is possible. To the point that...

Thursday 10/14/21 A buddy of mine who writes on music and does excellent music books sent me an email, which I just got today, though it...

Wednesday 10/13/21 Some mid-week thoughts. Yo. There are two keys to being consistently "laid back." One of them is not caring about...

Wednesday 10/13/21 Publishing actively targets people based upon their skin color, sexuality, pronouns, and typically nothing else. Not...