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The Night Before…
There’s been only a very short period in my life when I’ve enjoyed flying. And enjoyed was probably not what it was.…
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“If you’re never failed, you’ve never lived”
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What Your Teacher Learned from David Foster Wallace
Hello Students: You have all heard me discuss David Foster Wallace numerous times throughout the semester (including the class-opening essay, which I…
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My Life With Jim Carroll + Hunter S. Thompson, or Why I Became A Writer
Jim Carroll died today. This is weird for me. But not in the same way that it was weird for me when…
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"How many special people change? How many lives are living strange? Where were you while we were getting high?"
prologue. "It" is happening again. The "it" that is happens not as much as "it" used to. Which strangely isn’t comforting. The…
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The Fallen
Nathaniel Hawthorne. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Hunter S. Thompson. David Foster Wallace. These are my mentors, the writers in my life who have…
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"I Guess I Worship Fascicle Things, But They are Different than His."
Today was a good day. That’s happening more and more. I suspect those good days were always happening around me. I just…
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"Too weird to live, too rare to die"
Buckle up. I’ve been reminiscing about the good old days quite a bit lately. Writing does that to me. Moving probably doesn’t…
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"So Let Us Not Talk Falsely Now. The Hour’s Getting Late."
(Inspired by Timothy McSweeney’s Very Intense Heated Passionate Battle/Embrace with They Might Be Giants) Simple Things: I’m sitting in my living room…
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Makin’ Muncie
It’s T+1 in the Hoosier state. I’ve been a resident for just a bit more than 24 hours and my towne home…
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“Not Because they are Easy. Because They Are Hard.”
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy asked Congress to commit several billion dollars in funds so that America could lead…
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The Things I Left Behind
I’ve plotted out a 3-book arc for my life. Because that’s what writers do. It’s actually a very good gauge for writing,…