Lit Game
As Terry Southern put it, “The Quality Lit Game.” My writing and my writing on writing.
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Substack: Video Killed the Newsletter Star
When I was a kid in the ’70s and ’80s, they told us, “You can be anything you want.” Thus empowered, Sesame Street’s Big Bird decided to be a firefighter. Failure ensued. Later in the same episode, a camera-toting cast…
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Miss Lonelyhearts: Advice for the Lovelorn
Read ‘Miss Lonelyhearts’ for Valentine’s Day Some books make you, some books break you. For me, anything over 60,000 words is usually a deal breaker in the latter category. I’m a dreadfully slow reader of fiction—“staring at marked slices of…
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Born on the Fourth of July (or Faux Pas July?)
When I met Ron Kovic In one of my more embarrassing literary moments, Eugene Ruggles, a lauded local poet who haunted the halls of the then-single-occupancy-residence Petaluma Hotel, was behind the wheelchair of his mustachioed literary cohort, famed anti-Vietnam War…
