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I'm teaching a First-Draft Novel-in-a-Year class for StoryStudio in 2026, with particular attention paid to (1) structure & accountability + (2) fun, playful ways to get it all done. Applications are open (spread the word if you can!): www.storystudiochicago.org/advanced-wri...

The Heartbreakers take a kitchen spin while their bandleader, Tom Petty, brushes his teeth #BicycleBirthday Tom Petty October 20 (1950-2017)

My most Dells-and-Horror adjacent story was in @cottonxenomorph.bsky.social last year, back in time for the season. Check it out if you get a chance! www.cottonxenomorph.com/journal/2024...

My latest for @blockclubchi.bsky.social Chicago Cyclists Are Buying Out Tamale Carts To Keep Vendors Home And Safe From ICE blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/17/c...

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Next best thing to re-reading Dog of the South in full today...check it out

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

My younger kids, both off school today, just told me their favorite way to make warm drinks cool was to put ice in them, with an air like I might tell school to excuse them and their brilliance the rest of 4th and 7th grades, or at least the week.

This is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen

Behold the brilliance that is this scene. This is one of my favorite scenes.

Terriers

A baseball game this spectacular will do strange things to you. defector.com/affecting-a-...

it's tha 1st of tha month, which means that subs are open for... short stories flash micros creative nonfiction until we reach our monthly cap. thank u ! xraylitmag.com/submissions/

You don’t even have to write anything It’s a 30 sec multiple choice survey

The fact that we must differentiate the First from the Second Defenestration of Prague remains an all time flex of that lovely city

Great interview by @housleydave.bsky.social about a book I absolutely loved and now just want to go read again. Check them both out!

Happy 50th anniversary to BORN TO RUN, all-time classic album and close personal confidante for most of my life. I wrote this once about the bridge to "Backstreets," one of my favorite pieces of music ever.

Watching my son's baseball practice to the right car stereo tunes wasn't the worst way to end the day

This is just so mean.

It was very exciting to have a new story published in JAKE on Monday. Turns out it's still exciting later in the week...check out "Night Rescue" if you get a chance jakethemag.com/night-rescue/

An evening story for the evening crowd in @publishedbyjake.bsky.social today...the latest in my Bluff Country series. jakethemag.com/night-rescue/

Just spent two weeks in Evanston Hospital and would stop and look at the back of the Ba'hai Temple a few times a day. Didn't realize till I was close to getting out it wasn’t purely out of a need for spiritual fulfillment.

True Failure reviewed in The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Watching RAISING ARIZONA with our son the same age we were when it came out (12) and thrilled to see him laughing at all the right spots -- "Yodas and shit", FART/"Hit the deck boy", the post-stick-up car chase, the trailer fight scene with Goodman. Still amazing.

I'm just assuming the dog is a 5-star, Air-Bud-esque, wideout recruit they need to rescue. Godspeed.

fish mouth, freshwater fishing hall of fame, hayward, wisconsin, hayward, wisconsin, 1988

“4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)”, Bruce Springsteen. Never gets old. #4thofJuly youtu.be/EiGfB0QBTV4?si… via @YouTube

These are the weak points. You know what to do. First thing tomorrow, use 5calls.org and raise hell.

Finishing a re-read of Winter's Bone while the sun sets and the birds won't shut up and loving when a perfect book gets more perfect

I have a pair of slightly-wide-pocketed jeans I had custom-made to carry around "So Long, See You Tomorrow". Sometimes I throw "Bob the Gambler" back there.

I somehow forgot Michael Clayton and The Nice Guys but otherwise this works for me

This was a hell of a way to learn my old roommate was the head of the Chicago Dept. of Transportation for the last few years

I think the Catholic Church should do this every day in every city

Hey folks. I know there's a lot going on right now, but I'd really appreciate it if you read this piece I wrote on the perils of raising an autistic child during the era of RFK Jr. and his campaign of insane conspiracies and cruel scare tactics geared toward people on the spectrum.

Chicago's No Kings march is so large the front is headed down Michigan Ave but folks are marching towards Wacker on every north/south street until at least Dearborn

Engraved on City Hall: “THE SALVATION OF THE COMMUNITY IS WATCHFULNESS OF THE CITIZEN”

Rode a hotel elevator in Alexandria, VA with Kevin Bacon. We nodded politely to each other. I'm not sure what he recognized me from.

RIP Brian Wilson

Night Court made getting arrested at night seem fun as hell

Even though I'm working with bigger quantities, it's impossible to do this and not feel like Parker Posey grilling her lonely, single wing in "Guffman"

Check it out -- Alex's workshops are always great for your writing!

Bruce Springsteen’s “Darkness on the Edge of Town” was released on this date in 1978.

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