Tag: writing

  • Five years ago today

    Five years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, I started my first online journal, breathing room. It wasn’t a blog in the sense we mean today, as it was more of a writer’s journal, a daily writing practice, a place for unvarnished honesty and fleeting thoughts. But to me the transition from journal to blog…

  • "Another list that starts with toilet paper" (after June Jordan)

    Found art? Reality programming? Pop anthropology? You make the call.

  • Somebody on freelance writing

    A few months ago, I recall, you reviewed (in the New York Times Book Review) Letters to a Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens and Letters to a Young Lawyer by Alan Dershowitz. How about Letters to a Young Free-Lance Writer? In highly abbreviated form, I would offer the following advice …

  • unvironmental news

    briggs i went to the watershed poetry reading and environmental ho-down in golden gate park on saturday, april 6, and then to a national poetry month reading at herbst theater also in san francisco, monday, april 8. we wrote up our observations, ostensibly for Literary Kicks (and also for briggs’ friend margarita [sp?] who gave…