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Publishing news, or: I updated the rail!
Once every 18 months is my current rate of Tumblr. Tumblng? In any case, here we are, in the sweet eighteenth, and therefore I have updated this sucker to include recent stories, essays, and news...
Hello out there tumblr. It’s been awhile. This is as close...
Hello out there tumblr. It’s been awhile. This is as close as I get to a sad-singer-songwriter photo, me and the head-bones of this kind animal, reading my story “Jukebox ” at the Bazaar Wr...
I wrote about the mail again.
I wrote about the mail again. : I wrote about my father and the mail he sends me at The Millions. My father and the mail and Charles Keating. And also Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mavis Gallant...
It's the end of June
and the threads between me and the internet are getting thin as gum. Stretched gum. Or silly putty? You can see it. My backpack is heavy with Margaret Drabble, Tin House, Elizabeth Hardwick, Je...
Seriously: no more birds in poems.
Seriously: no more birds in poems. : LitRagger is one of those good ideas you wish you’d thought of but didn’t because you’re not really an ideas person and so you’re glad someone else...
Music & Literature
Music & Literature : commongoodbooks : > As the magazine buyer, I’m all sorts of pumped about the lovely > media that is floating around in our magazine section. Magaz...
If you have any way at all
of listening to Randall Thompson’s unaccompanied choral setting of Walt Whitman’s poem, “The Last Invocation,” I say: listen. and if you do not, here is the poem, and you can probably h...
"This morning I was assailed by such sadness at the velocity of life—the distance I’ve travelled from..."
“This morning I was assailed by such sadness at the velocity of life—the distance I’ve travelled from my own youth, the persistence of the old regrets, the new regrets, the ability of failu...
This will take the form of a list
not because it’s clever but because lists are a frequent bedtime ritual around here (hand-scrawled, often on the back of opened mail, or other lists) and it’s almost bedtime. Was hoping to ...
the impulse to copy out all Mary Ruefle essays, m-stop by m...son to carry such letters around and not put them in a drawer.
“We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love–a connection between things….That is why I read: I want everything to be okay. That’s why I read when I was a lonely kid and...
The Maltese Falcon, Steve Nash, and the Great Computer Backup of 2014
As part of what I’m calling the Great Computer Backup Project 2014, I undertook a subproject last night, called, figuring out what the hell is on my desktop. A place that I’ve kept, well, inc...
theparisreview: Chaucer scholars have generally settled on...
theparisreview : > Chaucer scholars have generally settled on April 17, 1387, as the > date his pilgrims departed for Canterbury. > > Here is a gallery of fifteenth...
mattnathanson: they put these RIGHT next to the “blood”...
mattnathanson : > they put these RIGHT next to the “blood” oranges. jesus christ, > whole foods… you want a turf war??!!!
As of today, there's a parrot in my novel.
Apologies to Flaubert.
"The characters in these stories often build their lives on speculation, on things one read somewhere..."
“The characters in these stories often build their lives on speculation, on things one read somewhere (that thing about a frog acclimating to boiling water if you raise the temperature slowly e...
I haven’t been on here in awhile. Honestly, I forget about...
I haven’t been on here in awhile. Honestly, I forget about it. There’s that saying about the three legs of a stool – is it a saying, or just a fact? – so I guess tumblr is like the fourth...
The Phoenix Labs — Part Five « Five Chapters
The Phoenix Labs — Part Five « Five Chapters : My story “The Phoenix Labs” has been going up at FiveChapters this week. Today you can read the whole thing. Thanks to FiveChapters, for se...
Been thinking about
air hockey and how many places actually had tables when air hockey was in its ascendancy if I would be good at pool or skiing at this point in my life peanut butter pretzels what percussion inst...
Things I'm Glad Exist: 2013ish books edition
The list no one waits for. But seeing as though the sole copy exists on the back of a borrower’s slip from the San Francisco Public Library, I figure putting it down here in the forever interne...