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The Black Boot
Months back, I got a very kind email from Ryan Wilson, who edits The Black Book, a journal out of Los Angeles, asking for “one of your deep, dark, weird pieces that you keep, perhaps, in a shoebox,...
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How great these days the ubiquity of gut-thumping short short fiction on our magic screens. If you don’t check Wigleaf regularly, I hope you’ll start. Scott Garson and the others keep things goodweird,...
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The new issue, which is the third issue, of Ghost Ocean Magazine features an interview I did face-to-face with Marynia Kolak, a very kind and insightful reader from Roosevelt University‘s graduate...
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The second of my Wigleaf stories has gone live, this one called “Buddy’s Body,” a case of the title itself playing the starting point for all that appeared after. Hope you enjoy…
View ArticleThe Extent of Our Decline
I’m grateful to Matt Bell for including my essay, “The Extent of Our Decline,” in January’s issue of The Collagist, their 18th issue and a very good one, full of very good stories and poems and...
View ArticleTake Pictures of Your Food
After many helpless hours dragging and trimming and wishing I had any idea what I’m doing, I am happy and just a sliver short of proud to present to you the second of what is certain to be three or...
View ArticleI Have Been Thinking About Albert Pujols Frequently and With Vigor
A calculated risk: allow the man to go to free agency on the logic that there’s little chance he’ll be seen next year as worth somehow more than he is currently. He could suffer from the pressure and...
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Folks on Backs
Here is the photo I used for the essay that will appear in the the My Parents Were Awesome book in a couple months. The point here is give folks a chance to revel as I reveled in the photo, staring...
View ArticleTamale Tamale Tamale Tamale
Friends, this Saturday night I’ll read at The Tamale Hut Cafe, which if you’re a Chicagoan here’s proof it’s not all that far, so what say you we hop into the Jetta, crank some whatever it is this...
View ArticleIowagain
This Saturday I’m following Quickies! to Iowa City, town of towns, for a reading that’s part of this year’s Mission Creek Festival. Part of a lit crawl format, I believe? Some fine fine people will...
View ArticleThe Pale King
I was fortunate enough to get a copy of The Pale King a few weeks back. Once finished, I began writing a review that, in addressing less the content of the book as its place in our larger understanding...
View ArticleFriday Night, Book Cellar
Many thanks to Patrick Somerville for inviting me along for The Pale King release event Friday night at Chicago’s perfect Book Cellar. Details here, but know that Adam Levin is reading, he behind the...
View ArticleEvery Time Makes…Makes Us Better
Some overdo updates to arrive very soon, but for now here’s a little video of the buds’ recent activities. Music from Serengeti. Every Time Makes….Makes Us Better from kyle beachy on Vimeo.
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Lula Reading, Big Questions
This coming Tuesday, Anders Nilsen, the man behind, among so much else, the van overhead and all other images on the covers of The Slide, will present a “book release slide show art show multi-media...
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If you’re a person who wonders why I don’t have any books finished or even forthcoming, technically, one reason is that I have been skating more than writing, and teaching full time now at Roosevelt...
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My first piece for The Classical went up this week, so a thank you to them for having me along for their big smart sportswriting party. The essay is about what Nyjah Huston might possibly mean to the...
View ArticleChronicles, Depth
I realize how terrible I’ve been with my official website. I go and tweet and tumbl and what-the-hell-ever else, but leave this place, my home, untended and sad. I’m sorry. I’m so very sorry. In the...
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Short Story Twofer
Two stories of mine appeared in print recently. The first, “Untoward,” occupies a few pages of Another Chicago Magazine‘s second of their Issue #50s, Volume 2 of the two-volume series of all-Chicago...
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Five Chapters
It’s turned hot in Chicago. The dog, she pants and rests magnanimously on her side, splayed. But that is not all, currently. There’s also a story of mine that’s been running this past week with one...
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An Interview at The Short Form
I should have mentioned this earlier. The good people at The Short Form were kind enough to invite me to yammer a bit about writing and empathy and the various other things you’d expect, plus I hope...
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