17 years ago , during the darkest depths of the Bush administration, I penned this riff on Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem to...

The very capable Chris Ryan at Grantland (a publication which should definitely hire me) gets it almost right: ... True Detective ...

Capitalism screws over Edgar Allan Poe (from Wikipedia ): Poe first brought "The Raven" to his friend and former employer...

I wrote this seven years ago and seeing as how the Halloween season is hard upon us,  it seemed like a good time to run down to the cata...

By 2020, America's new All Hallows Eve tradition will have citizens gathering in town squares around bonfires of Chinese-made junk to te...

Part I here. Part II here. Part III here, Part IV here. Part V here. The Despairing Posture of his Fall by driftglass Part VI ... “Enou...

Part I here. Part II here. Part III here. Part IV here. The Despairing Posture of his Fall by driftglass Part V ... Unbidden, that scrap...

Part I here. Part II here. Part III here. The Despairing Posture of his Fall by driftglass Part IV ... But I had to, don’t you see? I had...

As a few of you know, as part of an Order of Protection I took out against the publishing industry 19 years ago, they agreed to stop harassi...

Completely Different. Once upon a time, some number of years ago, I had an informal but clear understanding with the publishing industry: I...