David Brooks, the aggressively moderate swell who writes aggressively moderate columns for The New York Times, is seldom so entertaining as when he gets haughty. It
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Of the three published stories about the making of Dope Dealers From Outer Space, this was the one written earliest. It’s sets the conflict between the
How my new short story, “Two Ways To Say Goodbye To Milford” was written.
“Stanny Couldn’t Make It” came out today in Across the Margins, and, as my practice will be with stories in this series–I’m currently calling it
Every year I hold a movie marathon on July 4th. Here are my picks.
Occasionally, I make a dreadful life mistake and I read a pundit. I know, disgusting habit. I’m trying to quit, but sometimes I just can’t
I don’t write a ton of stuff on literary craft here. (I haven’t blogged a whole lot period in the last couple of months, I
Larry Dahlke and I recorded this for The Missouri Review‘s Audio Contest. He plays the interviewer. I play actor Jack Renner, star of one of
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awY1MRlMKMc?ecver=2] Last year, much to my surprise, Donald Trump, in all his appalling ignorance, taught me what may be the most important lesson I
Our culture has a fetish for putting old wine in new bottles. We reboot old TV and movie franchises, comic books, games, everything. We crave both novelty and familiarity, and like to get both at the same time if we can. Yiannopoulos is that in spades. He’s the racist, homophobic, sexist uncle you dread talking to at Thanksgiving, but he wears eyeliner and pearls.