Every goddamn day: 04/30/25

      Eight colleges: Princeton, Yale, Brown, Williams, Amherst, Middlebury, Dartmouth, Columbia. Visited, one after another,...

     Well, if you can't find literary success, at least you can imagine what it would be like. Summer Fiction Week concludes with this...

     Maybe the strangest entry for Summer Fiction Week. This was written years ago, when I was a contributor to the old National Lampoon...

     This story is a relic from the pre-Internet age, when the New York Times Sunday Book Review would run tiny classified advertis...

                                      Bad Report Card      I pick up coffee and an uncut bagel from the cheerful Korean woman at the...

          This was written after reading one too many of the anti-Semitic form letters that used to flood the newspaper.  It struck ...

        I f you've ever seen a Sally Mann or Jock Sturges photograph, you've perhaps wondered how, in later years, the child...