Many Moments More

Nov 202 min read

From stories

Wednesday 11/20/24 These are parts from some of the new eleven stories, which were done as a simultaneous undertaking while on the road...

Nov 206 min read

Stop breaking down

Wednesday 11/20/24 Everything that hadn't broken down--which was already most things--is breaking down now. I still haven't heard from...

Nov 196 min read

A presidential game and the American education system

Tuesday 11/19/24 I was having a conversation with someone about Donald Trump, which was itself a conversation about people. I said that...

Nov 1810 min read

Four things I try to do every day and more

Monday 11/18/24 I wrote four stories this morning. I'm afraid they are rather dark. But there is life in them. The burning light of life....

Nov 179 min read

Prose off: Story put forward in The Baffler by editor J.W. McCormack, the living embodiment of the cliche that is the petty Brooklyn sinecure/literary subculture dweller/tosser v. Fleming story

Sunday 11/17/24 Back at it again with fiction from The Baffler as selected by editor J.W. McCormack . Reading these entries, it can...

Nov 167 min read

Prose off: Story in Harper's by Diane Williams put forward by editor Christopher Beha b/c he thinks it's brilliant (totally believable) v. something by Fleming from There Is No Doubt: Story Girls

Saturday 11/16/24 This is going to be a pasting. They're all pastings. I just wanted to say that here. I don't need to set this one up...

Nov 153 min read

Pure delight

Friday 11/15/24 We'll start tomorrow morning with a prose off. To paraphrase a country and western song, who will the next exposed fool...

Nov 153 min read

Pine cones

Friday 11/15/24 These are dark days getting darker, which seems impossible, but it's true. Harder to go on. Harder to see a reason to. I...

Nov 143 min read

People things

Thursday 11/14/24 I use a limited amount of images in this journal, because it's word-based. Like a book. It is a book. That's how I look...

Nov 1413 min read

My shero

Thursday 11/14/24 People are sure going to tell you about that thing they say they don't care about. I repeatedly see these claims...

Nov 134 min read

Prose off: Story in Conjunctions put forward by editor and Guggenheim winner Bradford "I 'Accidentally' Sent You an Email Insulting You and Displaying How Truly Witless I Am" Morrow v. Fleming story

Wednesday 11/13/24 We've talked about Conjunctions editor, pretentious-fop writer, veritable Sir Soporific, and Guggenheim winner--of...

Nov 139 min read

Trauma, disabused, fire, every day, tufts, car in need of a jump, lines of attempted defiance, gendering, therapy, scantily clad, romance, bitten

Wednesday 11/13/24 People liberally apply the word "trauma" with a casualness that suggests they've never known real trauma at all. If...

Nov 121 min read

First sentences of five stories written since yesterday

Tuesday 11/12/24 I've written five new short stories since yesterday. These are their first sentences: A song was once played on...

Nov 119 min read

Prose off: Story in The Threepenny Review put forward by Guggenheim winner and editor Wendy Lesser with the cool nickname v. Fleming story

Monday 11/11/24 In the past, we've talked about Wendy "Don't Call Me a Termagant Because I'm Actually a Mega-Termagant" Lesser, editor in...

Nov 1110 min read

Guggenheim, Paul Yoon, not frog, Facebook

Monday 11/11/24 Remember my Guggenheim application ? So over the weekend I get an email requesting materials. It's not like how this...

Nov 106 min read

On white knights, people's hypocritical attitude towards health, the metaphor of firing the coach as pertains to society, and what is actually scary

Sunday 11/10/24 A white knight--as per what that means in modern society--is really a sexual opportunist. Ours is a world filled with...

Nov 914 min read

Prose off: Typical poorly written story in The New Yorker v. Fleming story with cameos from New Yorker executive editor and possible David Remnick successor Daniel Zalewski and Jackson Howard of FSG

Saturday 11/9/24 We'll go back to The New Yorker for another one of these prose offs. This is from a story called "The Honest Island" ...

Nov 83 min read

A letter to my sister on her birthday

Friday 11/8/24 I sent my sister a large envelope for her birthday containing a card, a story, and a letter. As I think the letter...

Nov 88 min read

Recent comments directed at me regarding stairs

Friday 11/8/24 Something cool happened Monday after I was done running stairs. It made me feel good and was a useful reminder to myself...

Nov 810 min read

Encounter with fake tough guy while doing stairs in the Monument

Friday 11/8/24 On Monday I ran 3000 stairs at City Hall and then 5000 on Tuesday and walked five miles. Wednesday was very lackluster--I...

Nov 77 min read

Prose off: Non-existent story served up as example of brilliant fiction by discrimination devotee Carolyn Kuebler of New England Review v. Fleming story that couldn't possibly compete with it (sure)

Thursday 11/7/24 We've spoken before about Carolyn Kuebler , editor of the New England Review and writer herself , who once wrote to me...

Nov 75 min read

Shake, Emergency!, me and Robert Vaughn, theatricality, supermarkets, school, C's, stick it, sympathy and empathy, John Peel and live music on the radio

Thursday 11/7/24 Shake some action--it's what you need. The Animals do a great cover of Sam Cooke's "Shake," on what was essentially...