I’m excited that my first post of 2018 concerns a fiction sale! Here’s hoping it’s a harbinger of good things to come. To wit, my story “The Money Book” will appear in the anthology Abandoned Places, coming soon from Shohola Press. I’m proud to be in such good company.
“Never Run, Because Then You’re Prey”: How I Walked Away from an Assault Unharmed
I’m up on Cover Our Tracks with our last post of 2017. I got to interview the amazing Lou Beach, the collagist responsible for some of my favorite album covers, including the American debut from Yellow Magic Orchestra. Titling my pieces isn’t always my strong point, but this time the title jumped out at me. …
While updating my clips I found this old but still awesome guide to design neighborhoods around the world that I contributed to for Metropolis Magazine. Enjoy!
The Little Blue Marble has its first feature-length reported piece and it was written by me! You can read it here. This was an interesting piece to do and it made me think a lot about political polarization — oddly enough — as well as bias in the media. In this age of Twitter and …
If you’d like to read my essay about the strange wonderland I entered when I accidentally searched Greenwich real estate listings with the price-range parameters turned off, please click here to go to Common Edge Collaborative!
I need new business cards for like a year now, and I am definitely going to get on top of that today, because I am SUPER organized and have my priorities straight ALWAYS. But meanwhile a friend told me about Build A Pick, where you can upload your own design and text and get it …
Homework-for-Parents is one of my pet peeves. To be honest, I tend to phone it in — if I remember to do it at all. Therefore, I am both surprised and impressed with my last-year self for evidently taking this Life Wisdom assignment so seriously– and I’m blown away by what I wrote! I just …
Go here to find my latest contribution to the fabulous album cover website Cover Our Tracks (founded by my BFF, the noted and underrated cultural critic Loring Kemp). At Loring’s behest I interviewed James Marsh, who is a wonderfully thoughtful artist and an inspired and inspiring storyteller. It was one of those interviews where the …
Go here to check out my interview with legendary illustrator Bob Pepper, up today on a great new blog courtesy of Loring Kemp. Cover Our Tracks is about album covers, mostly — but nothing about album covers is only about album covers… know what I mean?