Category Archives: white collar sweatshops of the east coast
Life With Mr. Dangerous and Other Stories
1. A friend wrote “What is this frenzy of activity?” Answer: I made a deal with myself that all posts drafted over 1000 words had to be considered as possible essays and finished as such and sent out to magazines … Continue reading
We Are Now Broke Enough As A Country For Manufacturing Jobs To Return
I grew up in Maine, where I woke up this morning, and which is full of empty factories, dating back to when manufacturing jobs were shipped overseas to take advantage of cheap labor. Here in Biddeford, where my mother lives, … Continue reading
America Discovers Middle Class Gone, Held Everything Together
I’m not an economist, but even I know that you can’t keep wages down, force people to pay outlandish medical, gas and home loan prices and gouge their financial services with late fees and surprise interest rates and still have … Continue reading
The Money Quote
From Sam J. Miller’s essay on the Short Story, over at The Quarterly Conversation: Many, including me, see a lot of positives in the digitization of art, don’t have a lot of sympathy for the RIAA when it complains about … Continue reading
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Your Questions Answered: Why Don’t The Fake Memoir Writers Write Novels?
Q: Why would someone like Margaret Seltzer try to publish a fictional story as a memoir? A: The novel in the West owes a great deal to the fake memoir, dating back to such classics as Moll Flanders. It was … Continue reading
The Silent Majority Is Reading
The New York Times ran this piece Sunday about the pretentiousness of buying something like Herodotus for someone for Christmas. Let’s read along and translate it, shall we? Feel free to add your own translations in the comments. YOU would … Continue reading
If You Watch This On The Internet, Pay Us.
Some of my favorite people from the Office, talking about the Writer’s Guild Strike. I watch the show on the internet, for the record. via Fishbowl LA
Thinking of you during this liquidity crisis
Every now and then, when the really rich are panicking, I like to make fun of the rich people I actually know, and send them text messages like the above. Of course they write or call back to explain how … Continue reading
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