Saturday 12/21/24 I am handicapped by the computer which I must restart from the power strip at least six times a day. I lose hours each...

Thursday 12/19/24 “Can people walk their dog on the beach in winter?” “They can, but not as many do. It gets windier on a beach than it...

Wednesday 12/18/24 Twenty-five films were added to the National Film Registry for preservation, including 1953's Invaders from Mars ,...

Tuesday 12/17/24 Many people attempt to trade in their pain for an online following and, in doing so, trade away a life for an online...

Tuesday 12/17/24 Bill Belichick is the new head football coach of UNC. When I first heard this was a done deal before it was officially a...

Monday 12/16/24 I watched some of Son of Lassie last night. That's a good dog to have on your side, same as his mother. Those Nazis...

Sunday 12/15/24 The two insipid women who live across the hall had a party on Friday night, or a gathering, anyway. These are the women...

Saturday 12/14/24 I have hot water for the first time in I think three weeks as of yesterday and was able to take a shower without a game...

Wednesday 12/11/24 Monday night I came up with a story idea and I knew it was special. I lay in bed and thought it through, knowing it'd...

Saturday 12/8/24 For a single set--albeit a voluminous set--of Christmas music, the best may very well be Deutsche Grammophon's five-disc...

Wednesday 12/4/24 We've talked in the past about Narrative Magazine , which publishes the same shit all of these places publish, by the...

Wednesday 12/4/24 The Red Sox signed Aroldis Chapman to a one-year deal. I don't like this at all. I don't like the kind of guy Chapman...

Monday 12/2/24 A reminder and a recommendation, because it's that time of year: Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre troupe adapted...

Friday 11/29/24 How about a Black Friday prose off? We'll circle back to Harper's and their now former editor Christopher Beha. Things...

Wednesday 11/27/24 People are almost always reliant on what is happening in front of them to be able to say anything. That is, they...

Sunday 11/24/24 Awoken at one in the morning by drunks in the street. Really smart conversations. Nice to hear such intelligent people...

Saturday 11/23/24 There's a Rolling Stones bootleg called Philadelphia Special , at the beginning of which--just as we are plunged...

Saturday 11/23/24 It's about half past five Saturday morning. I've been working for a few hours. This final version of "Dot" is done as...

Friday 11/22/24 We'll return to the fiction of The Baffler for this prose off, as selected by editor J.W. McCormack. Here we have...

Thursday 11/21/24 Here is where some writing matters stand. Yesterday I finished the new eleven stories that I did more or less...

Thursday 11/21/24 I have felt like I am under siege lately. Everything is going as bad as possible. The few things that had not broken...

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...

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...

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