A Writer's Desk

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. - Gilbert Highe

Pablo Neruda's "Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines":

While I work on stories for Art Lies , Swindle and Touring and Tasting Magazine , I'm still trying to wrap my head around what I'm ...

View it at the National Library of Scotland.

Seriously . Of course, it's seriously bad poetry, but still, not everyone can be Robert Frost. And, you know, I'd like to see Mr. Fr...

Go to a newsstand this weekend and you might find some magazines that have some of my work in it... For Metro Dot Pop I did a short profile...

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Well, I don't know how I feel about this but the New York Times reports that Esquire Magazine has published the diaries of Heath Ledger...

The amazing Michael Chabon, author of one of the most amazing novels of this new century, has a fun essay in the New Yorker about superher...

Nay! The New York Times has a brief story discussing how children should be introduced to Shakespeare at the age of 4, which, in some ways ...

Care of Write to Done .

Geez, what are writers thinking? A fake memoir of the Holocaust? Seriously?! That's not good, people. A fake memoir about gang life in L...

The University of Pittsburgh owns one of the rare, complete sets of John James Audubon's Birds of America . It is considered the most va...

I have a couple new pieces in Venuszine... 1) I was asked to write a piece for Venuszine's big story "The Greatest Female Guitarist...

A new site showcases the artwork of kids. Pictured above - "One Eye," by Ami, age 4.

She loved most the lusciousness of his buttocks, their dimpled circumference, as though God had created them only so she might pull him fart...

The New Yorker in the 1930s , care of the American Studies Program at the University of Virginia.

The great Nicholson Baker reviews Wikipedia: The Missing Manual , by John Broughton in The New York Review of Books.

That will change your life .