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Y’all wanna see something cool? Before anyone else gets to see it? Fuck yeah. So awhile back, my book sold in France to Les Éditions du Portrait. I didn’t know at the time that meant they’d be doing a new cover. I’m trying to decide where to hang this after I get it blown up, and…
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a dust bowl story
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A funny thing that happens when you’re a writer is you find yourself in text and dm threads with other writers, the subject of which is mostly all the shit you can’t talk about. Some of it, you just don’t want to jinx it before the check clears. Some of it, it’s not real until it…
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It’s unnatural to drive East. I get off the highway for gas, or I just don’t want to be on the highway. I get back to the onramps—East or West—and…
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The plan was to not have a plan. Easier said than done, really. For one thing, it’s annoying as shit to everyone who asks where I’m going and my answer…
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We’re finally doing this. Sunday night, Woody’s dog friends brought their people over for a dog going away party. They played while we had a little…
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Would you talk to me? If I were a cable guy who showed up to fix your internet, or a bartender fixing you a drink or the bouncer reading outside the…
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Thank you all for the kind comments. Really. I think I was supposed to be doing something this week. Oh. Yeah. That uh road trip thing. Badreads is a…
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I want to tell you about Paris, in some sort of lyrical way that’d do justice to Paris. But I’m in the deadzone of jetlag. So all I can say is Paris was…
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Maybe this substack was what I needed to move forward, to stop trying to rewrite the last one, to put it in a box and say, okay. I’m done. There wasn’t…
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It’s been about a year since I started this substack. So let’s do one of those year in review posts. Since of course I went long and it won’t show up in…
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Essays, bad jokes, rants, and unsolicited advice from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Hough, and a dog named Woody Guthrie.
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