Auggie's Revenge and Fight for Your Long Day

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  • Wuhan, China
    Reading Little White Duck: A Childhood in China led me to Wuhan, China, a large sprawling city dissected by a huge river that Chairman Mao ...
  • homeless and poor
    And Duffleman has the nerve to think he has problems! Is he a homeless man breaking into and reopening a bar? No. Is he earning over $10K a...
  • art-student debt
    At L.U.S.K. it's rare that we honor another writer's birthday , or even our own, but Chelsea Martin 's this past Sunday drew me ...
  • Zone by Mathias Enard
    I've been reading Zone  by Mathias Enard, tired sometimes and spacing out, but always some vivid description or series of incisive fused...
  • Winter, 1965 by Frederic Tuten
    I enjoyed " Winter, 1965 " by Frederic Tuten, which I chanced upon collected in the O'Henry Prize Stories 2016   and read in t...
  • Zen and the Art of. . .
    Because I recently checked out a copy of the 25th anniversary edition, I could pull a Fred Exley and commemorate Robert M. Pirsig's pass...
  • Clemson Literary Festival
    The Clemson Literary Festival came and went, and as best I can tell, it was a huge success. For me, highlights were hearing U.S. Poet Laurea...
  • Economic Hardship Reporting Project
    It's always a bit disappointing to see these  somewhat simplistic articles get a shiny new website when my more developed and nuanced n...
  • Atlantic City
    I stumbled upon a couple articles on Atlantic City's current casino "contraction," here and here , and it sounds like the bea...
  • interview w/LL on inequality in SF
    Lavinia Ludlow's Single Stroke Seven drops on March 1, and I had a chance to ask her questions about  the writing life, unaffordable ho...