A Yuletide Message That Is Not Ominous At All
I’ve spent the past several weeks feeling troubled. And you all know why.
And The FBI Has Lost My Fingerprints
This sort of thing happens to me quite a lot.
Adventures are Greatly Overrated
And also: the people who enthuse about them don't know what they're talking about.
Punching Upwards
Harvard University existed for 383 years before anybody published a satire about it, and that person was me. Why didn't anyone else do it? Well, I've been thinking about that, see...
Me Versus Me
Well, here we are in the middle of a pandemic. So, uh -- how's it all going?
misbehaving at parties
Ten years have passed since that horrible, awkward night and I'm still trying to process it.
smiling in a time of contagion
I’m getting a bit wary of opening newsletters at the moment.
A Hypothetical Book About Aliens
Sooner or later our species will be visited by an alien civilization.
The Perfect Query Letter for Literary Agents
My quest to find a literary agent, its reasons, and some very excellent advice on how you too can query a literary agent.
Quarrels with Dogs in the Dead of Night, Part II
My dog has tried to kill me on ninety-three occasions.