Category: writing

How do you know you’re a writer? If you wrote today, you’re a writer.

  • About halfway through author Rick Levin’s novel “Off Route,” I found myself muttering, “Pick a lane, dude.” But not in a bad way. More in a “what the hell kind of story is this?” way. There’s no knowing what’s coming around the next narrative bend. But Levin’s voice is so real, so comfortable in its…

  • I ordered this book on a whim and it spoke to me. When the amazing and insightful graphic artist/cartoonist Peter Dunlap Shohl pointed me to Brian Fies‘s work on Facebook, I got intrigued and began following him. I have no previous experience with graphic memoir but as a longtime journalist I know that the best…

  • Since hiring Claude to help me do research, I feel two things. First if Claude were human, I would have fired him after his first big hallucinatory botch it was so egregious. Second, it’s now kind of entertaining to throw Claude a simple task and see how much of it he gets wrong. Claude, of…