Thursday 1/23/25 A truly great work of fiction is for a greater good. It's an act of public service. Otherwise it's just writing. And...

Thursday 1/23/25 Oh no, what will become of me? I'm putting up something from a story of mine against a story from Harper's , and if...

Wednesday 1/22/25 People do far too much complaining about the cold. You'd think they'd been stripped of their clothing in Antarctica and...

Sunday 1/19/25 I have to admit that I wasn't displeased to wake up and see that the Lions were drilled yesterday by the Commanders. I go...

Saturday 1/18/25 Not a remarkable day for fitness, but sufficient I suppose. Walked five miles and did 150 push-ups and five circuits of...

Saturday 1/18/25 Everything is a muscle. Your mind, your ability to process, to recognize, your memory, your emotions, the ability to...

Friday 1/17/25 It wouldn't surprise me if Bill Belichick were to bolt to the NFL, leaving North Carolina in the lurch, were he to receive...

Thursday 1/16/25 I spoke to my buddy--briefly, because she hung up on me. Basically she sat there eating a big ice cream cone, with it...

Thursday 1/16/25 The Patriots hired Mike Vrabel to be their head coach, and I don't feel great about it, or at least not how they went...

Thursday 1/16/25 Chuck Berry takes three guitar solos in "The Promised Land," which is perhaps ironic, given the torrent of the...

Wednesday 1/15/25 People are usually only interested in themselves, and it is from that truth which stems most of their problems and...

Wednesday 1/15/25 I had an extended, life-like nightmare about my ex-wife last night. It seemed to keep going and going, stretching for...

Wednesday 1/8/25 Emily Stokes , editor of The Paris Review , was offered the story below by me from which you will see an excerpt. But...

Tuesday 1/7/25 Don't rob one book to pay another. Someone could say to me, "Of course you're all about moving forward, you've had a...

Monday 1/6/25 New England Patriots coach Jerod Mayo was relieved of his duties shortly after the Patriots--in what is now standard inept...

Sunday 1/5/25 I don't like the term "experimental" when it comes to fiction or any art. It's a term for losers. For people without...

Sunday 1/5/25 All of Boston sports media said throughout the season that there was no way Patriots coach Jerod Mayo wouldn't be brought...

Saturday 1/4/25 We'll get more into this guy later--let's just start it off for now. Have you ever noticed how so many people making this...

Friday 1/3/25 Recently we had a prose off in these pages featuring a story from Narrative , the thieving den co-run by Tom Jenks and...

Thursday 1/2/25 We've talked before about Gerald Maa , editor of the Georgia Review . He is a big proponent of discrimination, having no...

Thursday 1/2/25 It is usually by today at the latest that people realize nothing has changed, it's not a case of a new year new them,...

Wednesday 1/1/25 We've spoken about empathy in this journal--which itself is empathy in extended form, one could say--but I wanted to...

Tuesday 12/31/24 I don't normally say I'm proud of anything I've created because that's not how I operate. Each time I write a work of...

Monday 12/30/24 Will get into more of this later, but this was an excellent month of art-making. I really produced. Every month is, but...