“Prometheus was trying / to invent the guitar solo. / Fire was his first draft.” – Amorak Huey, “Seven Stories About Fire” Maybe this is an increasingly impossible experience in […]
Re-centering
“A beach house isn’t just real estate. It’s a state of mind.” – Douglas Adams, ‘Mostly Harmless’ Warm weather always helps. Not shivering when I wake up, the ability to […]
On Nonparticipation
“More and more [voters] declared, if only by nonparticipation, their alientation from the political system. In 1960, 63 percent of those eligible to vote voted in the presidential election. By […]
Designated Months & Reading Habits
“Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me…” – Jorge Luis Borges
Why Are All The Best Short Story Writers Women?
“I fell in love with a robber and he took me on his rounds.” – Aimee Bender, “The Ring”
The Poem I Recommend If You Don't Think You Like Poetry
“I had my first nightmare about dangling by an umbilical cord from a white sky above a white boat floating in blood.” – Zachary Schomburg, “1978”
What Does Success Look Like To You?
“There’s a place some of us choose to live / gated community cops can’t come in / a neighborhood for punks over the hill” – NOFX, “Mattersville”
I Had An Idea For A Story
“I got ideas, man! I got ideas! Like, how bout a shirt that says, I don’t know, LOSER. Or a hat! A f–kin hat that goes BEEOOOOWWWEEEET!” – Lance Brumder, ‘Orange County’ (2002)