The Year of Living Less Dangerously
When I was in my 20s, a typical day in my life looked like this: Open eyes, reach for the Marlboros, have the first of the day’s 20-ish cigarettes, get up, […]
Read More!When I was in my 20s, a typical day in my life looked like this: Open eyes, reach for the Marlboros, have the first of the day’s 20-ish cigarettes, get up, […]
Read More!The way some people get excited about making their Oscar picks, I get excited for the Kentucky Derby. There’s a bit of history here. In 1988, I was living in […]
Read More!Hard Wired, my fourth book, came out last summer. As was the case with my first and third books — The Scar Boys and Life in a Fishbowl — a […]
Read More!“This one is packed with Feelings of how sometimes love is amazing and sometimes love is hell.” Book Riot’s Most Underrated YA Books of the Pandemic “With its mix of […]
Read More![A tired looking meeting room with low ceilings and glaring fluorescent light. Sounds of people shifting in place as a man in late-middle age reluctantly stands up and clears his […]
Read More!I have never been good at sports. By the time I’m nine years old, I have already flamed out of Little League Baseball (my batting average over two seasons is […]
Read More!So my shrink — actually, she’s a behavioral psychologist, which means that, rather than help me work through difficult issues, she tries to change my behavior to minimize stress. Anyway, […]
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