Writing in: The New Yorker, The New York Times, L.A. Times, Harvard Review, MarketWatch, etc.
New York, New York
Joined January 2014
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My essay about pain, numbers, ratings and the insurance industry, with gratitude to @Colorado_Review :
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Farewell to the incomparable Annie Dillard. (Free link to her now-classic masterpiece, "Total Eclipse") cyberspacerobinson.org/cours…
#essay #writerslife
Journalists being arrested for peacefully covering a protest is a dangerous assault on democracy. (Free gift article). nytimes.com/live/2026/01/30/…
“Trump Is Lying To Our Faces” (Gift article from The New York Times.) nytimes.com/2026/01/25/opini…
“Maine will not be intimidated. I will not be intimidated.” - Janet Mills, governor of Maine and candidate for U.S. senate. #Election2026 @JanetMillsforME
Digging into the mysteries, truths, and fictions of New York’s cemeteries: honored to have this essay in Slag Glass City.
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"Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. You are neither wanted here nor needed here.Your remarks over the last several weeks have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties & are not fit for the auspicious office you occupy." - Gov. JB Pritzker
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When your flight is delayed at SFO, you can go to a drag show. My former home town is one of a kind, and I left my heart here. #sanfrancisco #pride
Thrilled to have a story from my collection in the beautiful @CatamaranLit.
✨Join us on June 24th to celebrate the launch of our Summer 2025 Issue!✨
🎤Readings by John Briscoe, @WilliamWButler, @susanmgaines, Charles Hood, Annie Holdren, @elmckenzie1, @DavidRompf, @VecchioneAuthor
Details: catamaranliteraryreader.com/…
#literaryevents, #writingcommunity
Peaceful protest: Maori members of New Zealand's parliament staged a "haka" to disrupt the vote on a bill that would have reinterpreted a 184-year-old treaty between Britain and the indigenous people. youtube.com/watch?v=N__OF41C…
Samantha Harvey has won the Booker Prize for her novel, “Orbital,” a gorgeous, profound love letter to Earth, to the universe, and to humanity. If you need perspective or need to be transported, read this astonishing book. #Booker #reading #hope theguardian.com/books/2024/n…
"We are a nation of immigrants." #KamalaHarris
Remembering my great-grandmother Amelia Frankovic, who was put on a ship at age 10 without her parents, and no money, and sent to the U.S. in 1907. As a child she worked cleaning boarding houses in Minnesota. #ellipse #2024Election
"The Saturday Shift": A piece about my brief, bewildering life as a waiter in England. (I set the dining room on fire, and then this happened....). Many thanks to @Pangyrus for publishing this #essay.
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King of Pawns, @DavidRompf
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ALT Text on graphic: “In my business, I hear all kinds of stories, most of which I’m inclined to dismiss as untrue or greatly exaggerated.”
Reading a brilliant polymath is thrilling; writing about him can be downright arduous & taxing. "When Tarzan Met Leonardo," my review of Guy Davenport's classic "The Geography of the Imagination" is now in Harvard Review. @Harvard_Review #Reading #Books
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Pleased to have my short story about a man and his wolf published in Wildness, from Platypus Press. Many thanks to visionary editors Michelle Tudor and Peter Barnfather. @wildnessjournal @platypuspress #writing
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Recommended listening: a reading of Annie Dillard's brilliant and haunting essay, "Total Eclipse," originally published in @theatlantic. #TotalSolarEclipse
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