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"This is easier than I expected."
The other day I watched a homeless man turn over a trash can and roll it a few hundred feet down the street so he could sit on it while he powered his…
Nov 18, 2020
May 2020
New email from Journal of American Despair
May 28, 2020
August 2019
Coming Soon
This very special edition of the Journal of American Despair will only make sense (if it makes sense at all) once you’ve clicked this link and read the…
Aug 1, 2019
July 2019
The Bad Day
The bad day starts like any other. You might not even know that it’s the bad day until several hours in. You’ll spot little irritations along the way…
Jul 31, 2019
Growing Pains
One of the stranger things about being alive is that the longer you go without dying the more people think you know what you’re talking about…
Jul 16, 2019
Failure Notice
You’re not in competition, or at least not how you think There’s no one else who’s keeping score on how you swim, or sink You don’t get points for…
Jul 8, 2019
June 2019
I got the horse right here.
Nobody tells jokes anymore. This might be due to Twitter, both because of the shortening of attention spans it has helped engender and the "everyone's a…
Jun 25, 2019
Angel hair, ice cream castles, feather canyons
The year that summer came late we wandered around in a permanent state of anxiety made bearable only by torpor. The rare sunny days seemed more precious…
Jun 18, 2019
Now You Know
Today I would like to tell you a story. It is a story I heard second-hand more than a quarter of a century ago, but I hope that will not diminish its…
Jun 11, 2019
May 2019
Fear Relieved
I have lived in the Union Square area for over twenty years, and even a casual estimate would have me passing by Grace Church thousands of times in that…
May 23, 2019
"I said, 'Your daddy loves you.' I said, 'Your daddy loves you very much. He just doesn't want to live with us anymore.'"
One of the reasons I started this curious and enthralling experiment with the newsletter format was to teach myself how to write again. And by "teach…
May 21, 2019
The Music Issue
One of the worst things about getting old—and if you’re someone who right now is like, “Ugh, is he really going on about getting old again?” I strongly…
May 14, 2019
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