Here’s some various non-fiction (100% true!) things I have written. Enjoy them!
Memoir/Personal Essays
“Lead singer substitutions are always awkward, but this made The Cars sound like a bar band. “Just What I Needed” could have been “Louie Louie” as played by your 50-year-old dentist and his four college buddies on a stage anchored by pinball machines and video poker…” (on The Cars reunion, from The Rumpus)
“It wasn’t until the next morning when I took off my doctor-prescribed tighty-whiteys, that I really saw what I had been feeling the past 24 hours. My scrotum looked like a giant Hass avocado…” (from Snip Tuck in The Portland Mercury)
I remember having a crush on a girl in 10th grade who loved Duran Duran. She drove a pink Carmengia, had braces, and danced really cute. (from Largehearted Boy)
“I was 30 years old and having some kind of midlife crisis. I guess I thought that 30 was midlife.” (from L.A. Times Jacket Copy blog)
“We would make out with the lights off and she’d let me take her shirt off. Her bra would stay on, in one way or another…” (from Word Riot)
“I met a girl there who played Cat Stevens in the morning and made coffee on a stove. I began to cry at anything…” (from McSweeney’s)
“I zig-zagged around the store aimlessly until I found the cassettes, buried in some corner like an erotica section at a bookstore…” (from Willamette Week)
“She was the kind of girl who still slept with over-sized teddy bears, wrote in huge loopy cursive, and whose favorite food was pancakes…” (from 3:AM Magazine)
Book Reviews and Other Types of Articles
What Not to Do at a Bookstore Reading
Character Witness: Stephen Elliott
Haiku Interview: Mountain Goats!
Down South With the Ghost of Larry Brown
Short Essay on Lutz, Lipsyte, and Williams
