Author: admin
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Why I’m Glad I Didn’t Find Love Til I Was Over 40
And luckily, our passions and interests overlap. That’s why we met. We’re both obsessed with skin. I cook it and she studies it. She’s actually a dermatological research scientist who studies hair follicle development. We met when she was finishing up her PHD over at the University of Arkansas.
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I Was Ghosted By a Female Friend and It’s a Terrible Kind of Heartbreak
The pain of not knowing if Alicia was still my friend or not was agonizing in a really terrible way that I just cannot describe. If I had to describe it I would describe it as the earth being in the shadow of the moon.
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Punching Down And Out:
If The Brothers Grimsby were set in America (as maybe The Brothers Elkhart; or The Brothers Ypsilanti— I’m trying to stay in the rustbelt and avoid simple southern stereotypes like The Brothers Lynchburg, Tennesee) Cohen’s character Nobby Butcher and his many fat and drunken mates would very likely have been Trump supporters.
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Super Heroes, Minor Problems
Five hours without proper hydration is just silly, so is carrying excess water weight in a metal suit filled with circuitry. I had Jarvis build in a mini treatment plant which is basically a sealed charged line coming off the arc reactor (thumps chest) that ionizes any liquid
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List of Essays
Losing the War- Lee Sandlin A Rough trade, Oktoberfest- Martin Amis DFW- most everything pre 2002 Whatever Happened to Greg LeMonde- Mike Magnuson- Bicycling Franzen- Coach, Farther Away, Caught, On Autobiographical Fiction Woven -Lidia Yucknavitch- Guernica Sliver of Sky- Barry Lopez Torch Song, – Charles Bowden Whaling Out West- Charles D’Ambrosio The Pain Tours, The…
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List of Stories
The Greatest Goddamn Thing- John McNally Do Not Go Gentle – Sherman Alexie The Pleasure of Her Company- Jane Smiley The Displaced Person- Flannery O’Connor Baader Meinhoof, Pafko at the Wall- Don Delillo Little Expressionless Animals, Good Old Neon- DFW Sleepy, Ward 6- Chekov The Swift Passage of the Animals- TC Boyle Fat, Chef’s House…