Lit Game
As Terry Southern put it, “The Quality Lit Game.” My writing and my writing on writing.
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Parting Lips
On the occasion of our last reading at BUMP Cellars, Sonoma: A chapbook introduction. Perhaps I’m looking back with rosé-colored glasses, but in my memory, the genesis of the decades-long poetry series memorialized by this chapbook went something like this:…
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Who’s Afraid of Steppenwolf?
Treatise on a Hesse Mess As Steamboat Willie sailed into the public domain, media pundits fanned its fire with hot-takes about what it means for the Mouse House. The professional fretting was so distracting that another work silently slipped into…
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So long, and Thanks for All the Fish Wrap
A newspaperman bids adieu to 2023. If you’re not careful, this job will turn you into a cigar-chomping J. Jonah Jameson-style cartoon parody of an editorial professional rather rapidly (except, in my case, with less gray—or, in fact—hair when it…
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