Short Chops
Keeping Track I accidentally started keeping track of my daily progress on my current project and I'm finding it really helpful. By the...
Coincidentify
This past week The Rupture published my review of Permanent Exhibit by Matthew Vollmer. It's a good book, so make sure to check it out...
The Source of Stories
We're on the last day of National Poetry Month and here I am thinking about stories. Like many people this month, I've been doing daily...
The Public Domain Class of 1923: Introduction
I love the public domain. What I love even more than the public domain is Creative Commons. Creative Commons offers another fantastic way...
Things Behind Things Ahead
It's the first post of the year, and now seems like a good time to announce there are some big changes in store around here, both for...
Not Everything I Published in 2018
I've seen a lot of people posting their end-of-the-year tweet threads of everything they published in 2018 and I've seen a lot of people...
Creating Biography: Bohemian Rhapsody, Carl Sagan, Getting Weird
I'm a sucker for the biopic genre no matter how many details they get wrong so I was probably going to like Bohemian Rhapsody anyway, but...
Gateskeeping
Earlier this week, I started to think about what what we talk about when we talk about gatekeepers. Obviously, the discussion about...
Living or Writing: On Philip Roth and Calling It Quits
Hearing the news of Philip Roth's death made me think of this old essay I wrote, but never did anything with. I'm publishing it here now...
Keeping Promises
While it made me feel very good to say that I would take five years worth of material and turn it into a publishable manuscript by the...
