Words about writing, and the world, and the weird and fascinating things in it. Everything's interesting if you give it a good look — so let's go do that.
Novelist and screenwriter, friend to cats, and Creative Director of The Blank Corporation, a film and TV production company. All opinions are my own — nobody else wanted them. This version contains bug fixes and general improvements.
A place to talk about stories in all their forms, the craft that goes into them, and the role art plays in our lives.
This newsletter will include observational humor, gratitude, small doses of advice, memories of heroic persons I knew up close, reminiscence about ordinary life back before Twitter and thoughts about American life and other pleasures.
Software design is an exercise in human relationships. So are all the other techniques we use to develop software. How can we geeks get better at technique as one way of getting better at relationships?
PREVAIL is a regular column about politics, history, national security, foreign affairs, organized crime, dirty money, global corruption, the fight for democracy—and, on Sundays, poetry and literature.