…and somehow I forgot to mention it on my own fucking webpage. I tweeted it. I Facebooked it. I posted it in the obscurer depths of a Nine Inch Nails message board, but I never mentioned that the interview is actually available online. Below, is the full-text. But I think the magazine probably wants . . . → Read More: Amoskeag Interview Went Live…
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Perspective on Time
I When I was nine, I spent my time at school or on the bus, keeping quiet. A soldier spy, Jedi Knight, superhero— someone struggling to maintain a meek secret identity. This narration, a running monologue rewrote everything, a chrome remolding of every tarnished event, until some khaki-slacked teacher called . . . → Read More: Perspective on Time I know, I know: I’m rather late. Still, I beat the Grammys. But before it becomes as dangerously irrelevant, I present to you the Top 10 Albums of 2011. Last year, I bought 41 new LPs and screened a few others. Virtually every artist on my list of favorites released an LP, yet six . . . → Read More: 10 Best Records of 2011 Earlier this year, Amoskeag Journal, out of New Hampshire, published my short story “[sic].” Recently, I had the good fortune to be deemed by their editors worthy of an interview and, should you so choose, you’ll be able to read that interview here, on January 8th—allegedly it will “go live” around noon. If . . . → Read More: Interview with Amoskeag Hi, kids. If you’ve landed on this website and read past its front page, there’s at least a 40% chance that you’re a nerd. And I offer that epithet in complimentary fashion—nerds are my people. We’re as much a family as any political party, any college fraternity, any professional football team or its fans. . . . → Read More: Nerd Flirting I’ve been quiet awhile due to less than thrilling real-life concerns. Nothing exciting has kept me away from writing—a bloody shame, really, because the bit of fecund yin hidden in the aggravatingly dramatic yang that is often existence is the potential to later retell the tale to any number of ends: entertainment, education, commiseration, . . . → Read More: The 20 Best Tracks of 2011 (So Far) Post-Script: A rough draft of this, I believe, was the first time I played the Ten Sentences game with myself. It’s a faithful rendering of what was, in reality, one of the most existentially depressing, grotesque, and sorry ordeals I’ve ever seen. Though over my years of recreational self-medication I so commonly went to . . . → Read More: Post-Script: The Mating Game As I’ve been disturbingly engaged in non-literary endeavors (my restaurant was just purchased by new owners and I’m eyeball-deep in transitional stuff that isn’t much fun, but will hopefully end up producing an excellent restaurant in the end), Sesquipedalism.com has been lacking in the update department for about two weeks. Apologies. I’ll remedy . . . → Read More: Explanation of Radio Silence The final assay in this escapade of ten-sentence recollections, I ended up with this woman for a couple of years. After everything, I remain perpetually perplexed as to what it was, in the beginning (months before this story), that she saw in me.
I did not want her; content . . . → Read More: 10 Sentences X: Happiness Amoskeag‘s 2011 issue, featuring my story “[sic],” just officially hit the stands. Go forth to New Hampshire University’s (comparatively attractive) website and buy, or check whatever local bookstore sells literary journals. Make me look good. And in demand. Please.
Editor Michael Brien’s endorsement of the piece: “Each year I try to select a . . . → Read More: Now Available: Amoskeag’s 2011 issue, featuring “[sic]“ |
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