My favorite video game lives in an ark. Surrounded by artifacts packed in a Rubbermaid tote box, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was next on my Summer of the Video Game list of must-plays. 

We crowd around the flame, we extend our naked hands, we feel the joints in our fingers warm and crack. The smoke stains our jackets and hats with its smell.

A lady doesn’t need makeup unless it’s the war paint she’s putting on to end me. 

Yesterday, Barry Graham favored us with his Top 10 Cities to Get... more

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FRIDAY   8:36 p.m.: I arrive at the intersection of Oak and... more

Yesterday, Barry Graham favored us with his Top 10 Cities to Get Drunk In,... more

We all know what getting drunk means and... more

I sat and bawled for half an hour after finishing Hill William in one swift read through this morning, beginning to end in an hour. 

The Summer of the Video Game will also go down as The Summer I Moved. Not across town, not from apartment to house.... more

“Go back to sleep,” I hissed at Perry. It was 2:00 in the morning and we were in our newly purchased condo in Mammoth,... more

I’ve gotten in the habit of writing these long email invitations and party reminders for parties I host at my... more

18. You will understand and properly use the term “brown out” in every day conversation.

"We’re sorry. We’re not sorry. It was that kind of year, our year in the dumpster, our year in the occult, our year of the amateur séance."

"As a term, postmodernism came into my vocabulary in 1988.  It had not yet moved from art and English and music into theology the way it has in recent years by then, but it was, of course, still extant in the visual codes of culture."

You’re in a car tunneling in the wake of its... more

In an interview with Luna Park in 2009, I was quoted as saying this: I really do believe in the whole... more

Here is one photo for each story in my story collection, Happy Rock. It is available now.  All the stories... more

on page 97, between sections that detail time Paul and Erin spend in Ohio with “Calvin” and “Maggie” (Jordan Castro and Mallory Whitten), I wrote: Manson Family, in large black letters.

FLYING SAUCER ATTACK: “Beach Red Lullaby” (b/w “Second Hour,” 7. single, Planet,... more

It started that stupid night you convinced me to walk with you over the bridge and along the river. I shouldn't have done... more

I can take just about anything now. Like how I returned from Christmas vacation to an inch of melted snow and a gaping hole above... more

I fell in love with Lena Dunham from the first scene of the first episode of her hit TV show, Girls. I connected with... more

  I. There’s a message from home—a place we call Pineapple for the two kinds of trees that hide it from... more

The Atlanta AWP was the first one that... more