On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

With American Morons, Glen Hirshberg confidently shoulders his way through the generational pack to claim his rightful place on the summit. These stories are smart, challenging, ripe with feeling, expansive in every way: Horror as it should be writ, and as only the best and most expressive can write it.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.