January, 2022 - Anyway...

dshendler January 31, 2022January 31, 2022Uncategorized Leave a comment

Confession of a Literary Pirate

Jews are an historically stateless people, and so had to invest their time and wealth in that which could be transported without confiscation –education. – David Mamet, The Secret Knowledge, p12. I used to be paid to be a pirate. This was before the Internet as we know it got big. I would get instructions and run all over my university campus to photocopy–with the company-provided copier-card–scholarly articles from any of the specialized libraries. It had to be fast, … Continue reading “Confession of a Literary Pirate”

dshendler January 28, 2022UncategorizedWriting Life Leave a comment

Chuck Palahniuk’s Fiction List

In his very excellent Consider This: Moments in my Writing Life After which Everything was Different, Chuck Palahniuk offers many many assignments. These are all designed to try to get you (me) the reader/writer to be a better writer. Tucked in way at the back is a list of fiction to read, short novels and short stories. I like those. There’s also a list of non-fiction, but we’ll get to that later. Today, the first of the fiction books arrives … Continue reading “Chuck Palahniuk’s Fiction List”

dshendler January 26, 2022Uncategorized Leave a comment

Kicking Social Media Dopamine

I stopped my Social Media. I forgot where I first read it. Must’ve been one of those “Don’t do this first thing in the morning” posts. or “Avoid this One Thing.” Something like that. And the “one thing” was get on Social Media. Twitter. Instagram. Facebook. Reddit. Imgur. Any of it. These were marked as mind killers. What I had found by my own experience was that if I did get on twitter, or reddit, or whatever, likely from a … Continue reading “Kicking Social Media Dopamine”