Freelance writer and editor. Made in Ohio, based in Berlin.
I’ve got a real backlog of magazines on my end table, and yet I just can’t stop reading. Here are 12 things I read and loved (or at least couldn’t stop thinking about) this past month. (See the previous things I’ve read here.) Germany’s Racist Present (Quartz) — despite a dedication to preventing another Holocaust, Germany […]
Morebe forewarned: a lot of these are #longreads. a lot of the links in this edition are amazing older articles that i recently found or revisited. A Pickpocket’s Tale (New Yorker) — this guy’s picture is in the dictionary under prestidigitation Why the “Friend Zone” is Bullshit (Foz Meadows) — how “nice guys” are the […]
MoreFinished writing my book yesterday at 2:30 p.m. I can’t tell you how much of a relief it is to be done. Well, you know, done aside from the rounds of editing coming over the next few months. Hurrah!
MoreCurrent word count: 9,400 (out of 30,000) I’m not as far along as I’d like to be, but I’m making progress. I’d hoped to hit 15,000 words by the end of October… that’d take a miracle at this point, I think. But really, I’m not terribly behind. I’ve started interviewing a ton of awesome crafters, […]
MoreI very vaguely alluded to a big potential project in my last post of 2007. That project is now very real, so I feel OK with letting the cat out of the bag: I’m writing a book. Got a deal and everything. (Though deal is a kind of misleading word—it implies six-figure advances and major […]
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