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17 & Life is a novella length memoir by Allen Callaci that discusses the murder of Anna Marie Bachoc, the author’s junior high school friend, three or four years after he lost touch with her. Review by John Brantingham buff.ly/3yxTjdh

Most mornings I doom scroll, but today, we did the Sunday crossword puzzle in a book of old Sunday crosswords from the 1990s. I'm feeling much better today. Also, feeling like it's the 90s again, and I'm in my twenties. I keep saying things with too much confidence as I did then.

Interviewed Rich Soos from Cholla Needles Press! tearsinthefence.com/2021/09/10/ric…

Now that I'm finished with Culturama for the year, I don't know what to do with my weekends. As a teenager, I took up juggling to impress girls. Maybe I'll get back into that.

It is our incredible honor: reckonreview.com/award-nominati…

I'm a New Yorker now!

Nothing I love more than wandering around the forest on a snowy morning just after dawn! Allegheny State Park is wonderful for silent trudging.

Hiking in Long Point State Park this morning thinking about Paul Klee. This is a pretty good place to be.

I just published Moments of Thought: False Narratives of Stress and Burnout While Hiking Allegheny State Park link.medium.com/XduYV8OkXob

The false narrative of burnout and one reason I completely changed my life. I quit my tenured professorship and moved to the other side of the continent. medium.com/@johnbrantingh…

This is part of my daily walk!

John Brantingham’s great micro 20 Seconds during an Earthquake in Walnut, California won the AdHoc contest, 2018. His NiF, Inland Empire Afternoon, set in the same location, was a runner up selected by Michael Loveday in Bath Flash Fiction Novella Award, 2019 adhocfiction.com/2018/09/20-sec…

I just published Early Radical Amazement: The Pear link.medium.com/cAdVQQhRapb

Among other things, HEAD V HEART by @ratpackslim is a discussion of how popular culture can be magic, how it can help those who love it and take it seriously through life’s most difficult times. Review by John Brantingham buff.ly/3LVQmKe

I just published The Geese Scream at Me to Look up from My Phone link.medium.com/vb4LYsNlhpb

I have an essay up at Coffee Times! medium.com/p/24d6610f7f5d

Lynda Smith Hoggan’s Our Song: A Memoir of Love and Race is a profoundly moving memoir that helps us to see the difficulty of breaking through sexual and racial norms. John Brantingham reviews. buff.ly/3XsY6si

Yours, Creature, the newest poetry collection by Jessica Cuello, is a work of exceptional sensitivity and thoughtfulness. John Brantingham reviews. buff.ly/3LyOSJ0

Hey everyone, I am so thrilled to be leading this workshop. For national poetry month, we're going to write one poem a day for the entire month. We'll be revising in class, and I'll be giving prompts and directions! Here's the direct link: docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLSfT…