I walk around L.A. and it’s a map of places I used to cry in. It’s a ghost town of good feelings, the city that keeps trying to chase me off when all I want to do is stay. It’s the city of failed dates, failed careers. Skeletons of past…

In 1964, Canadian communication theorist Marshall McLuhan published Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. The most famous snippet of this book arguably is the phrase “the medium is the message,” expressing that the forms and methods used to communicate information have a significant impact on the messages they deliver. In…

Pull all volumes of past work onto your desk. Let them remind you of how far you’ve come, and how much more there is left to do. Bathe in sunlight Get drunk enough to start fantasizing, but not so drunk you can’t hold your pen Remind yourself that one day…

most days, i pretend i’m on a beach in spain, drinking wine until my skin feels so dry you could light a fire on it. sometimes i cry sometimes i step out on my balcony and yell at the orange tree for being so beautiful, so unaware i write long…