“Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.” –Henry Miller’s Work Schedule and Writing Commandments circa 1932-1933, around the time he was writing Black Spring. (Excerpt from Henry Miller...
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Read More →I cut this article from a Spin Magazine, sometime in the 80′s. It’s been a fixture above my desk ever since. How to write with style
Read More →I’m always glad to get some good news from my hometown. When I discovered New York toast-of-the-downtown playwright Adam Szymkowicz’s Deflowering Waldo is coming to Racine, Wisconsin, I practically did a spit take....
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