It takes Maine a freaking while to get the latest issue of Esquire. (I actually didn’t even get to buy this in Maine; I had to wait until I’d missed an Amtrak out of Boston to get my copy.) Anyway, hey everybody! Brendan has an article published in fucking Esquire! You can read the full [...]
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 [...]
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 � Featuring work by: Benjamin Blattberg! Peter Horan! (poetry blog) Deborah Blakeley! Myself! Dennis Conrow! (website) Want in on the [...]
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 [...]