The defining mark of literary journalism is the personality of the writer, the individual and intimate voice of a whole, candid person not representing, defending, or speaking on behalf of any institution, not a newspaper, corporation, government, ideology, field of study, chamber of commerce, or travel destination. It is the voice of someone naked, without [...]
I’m not sure why we even try, when no one in the world can write a prettier email than my friend Dennis.
Last evening, I ventured with my drunken friends into a place we’d never been, that was very reminiscent of a public radio dance party; pretty hipster kids in their skinny jeans and bizarre getups [...]
Once more, with feeling: five days, one writing prompt, and five rockin’ results. A series of stories on habit (download PDF), inspired by the following quotation:
Habit is the chief motive force. — Fyodor Dystoyevsky
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Featuring work by:
Benjamin Blattberg!
Peter Horan! (poetry blog)
Deborah Blakeley!
Myself!
Dennis Conrow! (website)
Want in on the next prompt? They are unpredictable, haphazard, possibly careless. Email [...]
My stepmom sent me a copy of Eireann Lorsung’s Music For Landing Planes By last month, and I finally got around to reading it. The book is organized by quotations giving a general theme, and I got distinctly more into some sections than others — so, more on that later. But this is by far [...]
I’m in two book clubs because I love and require deadlines, especially for things I enjoy doing. Actually, in one of these book clubs, out of ten or fifteen women I only really know one of them — since the woman who initially introduced me to said book club stopped going almost immediately after said [...]