I’d Like to Talk About the Bigger Stuff
Today, in leafing through a bundle of letters to Kyrgyzstan, postmarked in Colorado, a sense of guilt begins to build. The feeling that I abandoned this...
Terror Bird
Of all the characters you do, “guy with a sexy
foreign accent who is also a pervert” will always
be one of my favorites. ...
Complex Relationships
He travels extensively and says that for him, photography is a way of organizing and making meaning of diverse memories and experiences......
When You Told Me It Wasn’t a Honeymoon
So we stayed on the trail and followed it down through the brush and over a rushing stream with soaked stones the color of chicken skin. Above us, the...
The Best Way to Drink Tea
The most ostensible feature of Fauteux’s work in this book is its “edginess,” an obsessive compulsive turning-things-over reflected in the restlessness of...
Proofreader
I had turned to James, one of my proofreaders, to guide me in matters of love, to keep me from making mistakes. This now, in itself, seemed to be a mistake. On...
Panther Pride
I’ve learned how to be invisible. Balance is key....
A Final Infidelity
In the end, there is just me: a twenty-nine year old Minnesota Man careening along the interstate, heading back east to Saint Paul on a humid August Friday...
Forty Years of Phoebe
If I begin by saying that Phoebe changed my life, will I lose all credibility? I intend no hyperbole; Phoebe exposed me to a multiplicity of writers and writing...