Archive - Kill Your Darlings

On Amazon (briefly) and Panamerica Books

"The economics of selling single copies of books through a distributor to bookstores are deadly. It’s not a business. I’m a writer, and even I…

Oct 11 •

On Infidelity (and Seduction)

Oct 10 •

July 2025

IT WAS ALL A DREAM

That we survived Covid, and being sent home, and then being called back, only to witness the demise of American democracy, is a lot to process.

Jul 23 •

The Chase, part one

Jul 16 •

5:08

January 2025

WHAT IF IT ALL WORKS OUT

There was a time not too long ago when a person could make sense of the world, when we didn’t wake from a fitful night of sleep to headlines about the…

Jan 6 •

October 2024

You have ten minutes to live.

Oct 17, 2024 •

September 2024

ON WORK AND MEANING

(and that noose dangling over your neck)

Sep 28, 2024 •

August 2024

IN THE COUNTRY OF PAIN

We don’t have as much time as we think.

Aug 26, 2024 •

The good news: our industry is not dead.

Aug 15, 2024 •

April 2024

THE CULLING, PART TWO

(in which every author dares to dream of their first appearance on the New York Times bestseller list)

Apr 9, 2024 •

Living is an act of exorcism.

Apr 6, 2024 •

January 2024

(On Moving Towards the Mean)

Jan 23, 2024 •

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