Wednesday 7/7/21 Here is a raw glimpse at the Beatles book--which features an 11,000 word chapter on the first take of "A Day in the...

Tuesday 7/6/21 Working hard on the Beatles book today. I think someone is going to come here in September and try and help me make this...

Monday 7/5/21 Yesterday--which marked 1834 days, or 262 days without a drink--I walked nine miles. Today I walked nine more, ran ten hill...

Monday 7/5/21 Rem-Dawg!!!! Arf afr! C-Dawg here. Fear not, I won't call you Remalicious, as that doctor does. I know you think she sucks....

Monday 7/5/21 It has been a very difficult holiday weekend. I have struggled to hang on. I am in some bad, bad place. The bad place is...

Sunday 7/4/21 Wounds that were not wounds he insulated in bandages. They weren’t really cuts, but he liked to pull the bandages away...

Sunday 7/4/21 “I’ll handle it.” The girl’s father pushed back from the breakfast table, though the first loud knock had yet to complete...

Saturday 7/3/21 A woman on a dating site had seventeen words in her profile. She didn’t count them, but sometimes someone would who cared...

Friday 7/2/21 Plumber came. Second plumber had to come. Wrote an 1800 feature on Scott LaFaro and the work he cut apart from the Bill...

Friday 7/2/21 Okay--let's do the same thing that was done for There Is No Doubt: Storied Humanness with The Ghost Grew Legs: Stories of...

Friday 7/2/21 A jazz’s musician’s legacy can be a multifarious slope. Sometimes it is defined by contrasting stylistic paths that...

Friday 7/2/21 I'm leaning--hard--right now to having every story in There Is No Doubt feature a female narrator and/or protagonist. These...

Thursday 7/1/21 * Sent "The Ghost Grew Legs" to The Atlantic and The New Yorker. * Talked to the guy who owns the unit upstairs for a...

Thursday 7/1/21 I barely hang on as it is, and more problems like the ones of today just highlight how awful this situation is and how...

Thursday 7/1/21 Sometimes you have to laugh, don't you? Got up, wrote an op-ed on sexual assault jokes, walked five miles, ran 1000...

Thursday 7/1/21 Op-ed I wrote this AM, which I doubt I'll be able to sell. *** Hey, rape-y sex joke people: You’re helping with the rapes...

Wednesday 6/30/21 I am not dealing with anything. I've not shaken the breakdown, I remain mired in it, really. Been a long time now since...

Tuesday 6/29/21 * Someone will have to explain the appeal of the heat to me. The air is thicker. You can feel its resistance against your...

Tuesday 6/29/21 Letter today around 2 to the Inner Circle. "The attached is fiendishly good. It's 2800 words long. Mind-blowing, radical,...

Tuesday 6/29/21 Saw yesterday that David Pastrnak's newly born son had died. Looked at Twitter and watched as people tried to turn this...

Tuesday 6/29/21 A ghost receives orders and sometimes the ghost can be incredulous. “Do what to whom?” the ghost may ask for...

Monday 6/28/21 On Saturday, I walked ten miles and ran the Boston College stairs ten times. Yesterday, I did the same. Today, I walked...

Monday 6/28/21 Yesterday marked 1827 days, or 261 weeks, without a drink of alcohol. Shaved for the first time in a week. Saw a photo of...

Sunday 6/27/21 There's a long entry coming tomorrow. I've been going and working all weekend non-stop and I just can't finish the entry...