Many Moments More

Nov 66 min read

Thoughts on the election results

Wednesday 11/6/24 I saw a post yesterday on social media--and it was representative of many other posts I encounter which themselves are...

Nov 59 min read

That's not the lesson

Tuesday 11/5/24 Given a chance to do or try less, almost every person will do just that, no matter what it costs them, which is the usual...

Nov 318 min read

Prose off: Stories by Guggenheim winners Lauren Groff and Jesmyn Ward in The Atlantic v. Fleming story

Sunday 11/3/24 There are writers--many of them--whose name you see and you know what they were thinking in writing that particular story,...

Nov 210 min read

Prose off: Story of terminal academia in The Paris Review v. Fleming story and the importance of life in fiction

Saturday 11/2/24 The value of a work of fiction is directly related to the amount of life it contains. Life should permeate every aspect...

Nov 19 min read

Prose off: First page of story in Zoetrope put forward by blatant liar Michael Ray v. first page of Fleming story

Friday 11/1/24 We've spoken before about Michael Ray, the editor in chief of the literary journal Zoetrope , and we're going to keep...

Oct 305 min read

Two stories and how they were made

Wednesday 10/30/24 Two stories began back in May with a storm. It was early in the morning--what most people would consider the night,...

Oct 3011 min read

y dont u just submit

Wednesday 10/30/24 No matter how clear something is, no matter how many times you've stated matters, explained them, nor how thoroughly...

Oct 306 min read

Not Baby Dodds

Wednesday 10/30/24 Find me a more meaningless term than "award-winning." Wrote an op-ed. Likely won't be moved. Not now. Will write at...

Oct 2914 min read

Prose off: Three stories from One Story put forward by devotees of discrimination in editors Patrick Ryan and Will Allison (with a nod to John Freeman) v. Fleming story

Tuesday 10/29/24 Want to mix it up? A lot of prose offs are upcoming. I'm working on a story today and I thought it'd be apt to use it on...

Oct 295 min read

The soullessness of using fifteen pitchers in a low-scoring game, academic grand slam, the decline of Patrick Mahomes, Jacoby Brissett running at the mouth, bombs away Celtics, cowardly drilling

Tuesday 10/29/24 Looks like the Yankees are getting swept. I expected a better showing from them and a tight series until that Freeman...

Oct 283 min read

Phil Lesh and the most soulful song I know

Monday 10/28/24 There are pieces of music by the Grateful Dead which causes me to wonder if that's the best music I've ever heard. For...

Oct 2810 min read

I don't know you

Monday 10/28/24 One of the AI prompts--which you cannot turn off--when I open a new entry now is "Literary Magazine Showdown." Yesterday...

Oct 276 min read

World Series, Celtics and their threes, Cale Makar, Bobby Thomson, Crosby and Ovechkin, spiraling BC, cool Reggie Jackson and Vince Coleman stats, service academy football, Jim Montgomery's job

Sunday 10/27/24 I got in what is late for me on Friday night and saw the very end of the first game of the World Series. I knew where...

Oct 273 min read

Fitness

Sunday 10/27/24 Among the matters I've not done a good job with of late is keeping up to date on fitness accounting. Can't go day by day...

Oct 253 min read

l think yore neet

Friday 10/25/24 It has been very difficult to keep going. I've really had to fight not to give in to things over the past few days. I...

Oct 2512 min read

Prose off: Tommy Orange story in The New Yorker in which he does his standard shtick v. Fleming story

Friday 10/25/24 We've talked about how the people of the publishing system--for whom the system exists so that those people can be the...

Oct 235 min read

The march

Wednesday 10/23/24 Friend today tells me that they want to start dealing in what I call the reality of my situation with me. My situation...

Oct 235 min read

The six scariest episodes of The Twilight Zone for the Halloween season

Wednesday 10/23/24 The Twilight Zone is a number of things as a program from episode to episode, and sometimes within an episode. It's...

Oct 239 min read

Get autumn right

Wednesday 10/23/24 I've been sick unfortunately. A couple of mostly lost days. This began on Sunday. Barely did any stairs Monday or...

Oct 236 min read

Prose off (You can't fake voice edition): Story in the VQR from Guggenheim recipient v. Fleming story

Wednesday 10/23/24 We have a saying here: You can't fake voice. A lot of people try and fake voice in their writing. You have stiff,...

Oct 218 min read

All of the people who body shame me

Monday 10/21/24 Yesterday when I got to the bottom of the Monument after I had finished my circuits, there was a line of people waiting...

Oct 1917 min read

Prose off: Story in The Paris Review that is passed off as brilliant and masterful by lying, classist editor Emily Stokes who knows it's as bad as everyone would v. Fleming story

Saturday 10/19/24 Yankees great Joe DiMaggio used to play every game the best that he could. Even though there were many games that...

Oct 188 min read

Kill one and two take its place

Friday 10/18/24 I'm reading back "Words of Rain" ten, twelve, twenty times, before calling it finally done. It's sick how good this is. I...

Oct 177 min read

Prose off: The best writing in the world according to Granta editors Sigrid Rausing (who totally believes that) and Luke Naima v. Fleming story w/a bonus Baffler fiction/Fleming fiction prose off

Thursday 10/17/24 You ready to see some more of the best writing in the world? Because that's what the fiction in Granta is supposed to...

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