Icon, Divas, and Hoes – Fiction October 15, 2003 As a highly-compensated taker of the national pulse, I decided to let rip a page out of the New York Times playbook, it being an icon of news journalism, and retained the services of an unkempt, boorish, flatulent but capable and unpaid intern.
Eat, Drink, Sing, Wipe – Fiction January 1, 2000 “Grak, me get bluebird mating call stuck in head again.” And Grak, having found himself absently humming bluebird songs to himself, understands.
Off the Road in Lowell, Mass – Essay August 1, 1994 The city’s live entertainment is better than might be expected, helped by UMASS/Lowell’s first rate music department and thriving radio station.
On the Wildside – Essay September 1, 1993 What moves really slow, is kind of ugly and locks up tighter than a Roxbury liquor store? No. It’s not a hard-top CJ-7. It’s the Eastern Box Turtle.