God of the Universe Next Door
Edgar Allan Poe’s prose poem “Eureka” suggests that if there are multiple universes each has its own god. Review of “The Reason for the Darkness of the Night” by John Tresch, The Wall Street Journal […]
Category: Fiction
A Divine Gate-Crasher at the Antique Car Show
Saturday morning: my usual routine–swim, town dump, dry cleaner, coffee–is brightened today by festivities on the lovely greensward that graces the center of our town, like so many others in New England. I don’t mean […]
Stop Singing and Write Your Damn Novel
William Faulkner was once thrown out of a speakeasy for singing “I Can’t Give You Anything But Love.” Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather People think it’s easy bein’ a bouncer in a speakeasy […]
You’ll Never Walk a Dog in This Town Again
A 23-year old Russian dog walker attacked a competitor twice her age for poaching clients. The Boston Globe As I idly surveyed the lucite deal trinkets on my credenza my mind wandered back to the nineties, […]
On Entering the 4,000 Follower Club
As I entered the WordPress locker room at the end of another long day of blogging, something seemed . . . amiss to me. And not the kind of miss that turns into a Mrs. […]