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With Love, Nick Cave
Does Nick Cave know about my love life? I found out my wife was cheating on me. Not the greatest feeling in the world after a decade of marriage. I admit, there were times when I met another attractive...
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Planes, DuShanes, and Happenstance
My first time on an airplane was in 1987. It was a DuShane family trip from San Francisco to New York City. My family didn’t have a lot of ideas when it came to vacations. Most were spent in my...
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The Herring Fairy
One night, Tony went to a bar to have a drink. That drink lead to another drink. Then to another bar. Then people bought Tony drinks and Tony can never say no to drinks. One bartender refilled his...
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From Paris to City Lights Bookstore
There are two major bookstores in the world, City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco and Shakespeare and Co. in Paris. Last week I read and discussed my novel at City Lights Bookstore. It was a dream...
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The Intimacy of the Fart
April is Irritable Bowel Syndrome Awareness Month and the perfect time to explore the intimacy of a fart. Let’s get some drinks, she says. We need pizza to soak up the alcohol, you say, which leads to...
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The Nervous Breakdown’s Literary Experience – San Francisco
Be there for installment number one of the quarterly TNB Literary Experience in San Francisco. WHERE & WHEN: The Makeout Room, Tuesday, May 25th @ 7 p.m. 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco $5....
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Let’s Go To My Place
Whiskey Thieves, Geary Street, 10 p.m. My head swims from free drinks after reading passages of my novel at bar. Then I’m invited to another bar, the free drinks decided to go snorkeling in my head....
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My Short List of the Good Life
Singing while riding a bicycle: Easier if you’re on flat ground or going downhill, but I’ll sing in between breaths up a hill as well. Dancing alone in the house: It started at five years old with my...
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I’ll Protect You
When two staggering drunk ladies are mad because you’re not as drunk as them and they ask you to catch up, so you drink more…..that probably means you were already too drunk. (Things they don’t teach...
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I Go To the Bathroom With Her: And Other Letters From My Novel.
(Havelock, NC) I lay on the floor and watch her disrobe, her naked body, hovering over me. She starts the shower. She soaps her hair and I watch the lather run down her curvy body, a bit irritated by...
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The Tenderloin Gave Me A Girl
My first night at my apartment in the Tenderloin turned into sex with a fan of my novel. The only furniture in my apartment was a bed and bathroom supplies. I had recently gone through a break up with...
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The Tipping Jar
I went on a crappy date. Yes, I call them dates. The 27 year old I “dated” insisted it was the first date of her life. She begged me not to tell anyone we went on a date. We went on the date. I know...
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Chuck Klosterman: An Awesomely Long Interview
Chuck Klosterman’s latest book is The Visible Man. It is told from the point of view of a therapist who is treating a man referred to only as Y___. Y___ has the ability to make himself unseen by...
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