The new one
(apologies to the great Mike Birbiglia for borrowing his title) So … I have a deal to write a new book. We actually signed the paperwork a few weeks ago, […]
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(apologies to the great Mike Birbiglia for borrowing his title) So … I have a deal to write a new book. We actually signed the paperwork a few weeks ago, […]
Like a lot of you, I’m guessing, I binged on Anthony Bourdain over the weekend after hearing of his suicide on Friday. I Netflixed a few episodes of his show […]
(I gave this talk the other night as part of an art gathering down in Rock Hill, South Carolina. I’m mainly posting this as a reminder to myself about how […]
On Thursday we wrapped up my first magazine-writing class at Wake Forest University. I had such a great group — 19 students from all over the country who walked into […]
Rock Hill, South Carolina, somewhere around 1990. I’m a reporter in the York County bureau of the Charlotte Observer, working alongside a sportswriter named Joe Posnanski. I’m 25 or 26, […]
Some of you know that I’ve been working on a book for a while — it’s called “The Elephant in the Room,” and it’s a memoir about my […]
At this point I’ll never catch up with all the people who have said nice things in one place or another about my Dean Smith story. It’s a great problem […]
Last weekend I spoke at an event called Dazzle Gradually, sponsored by the very cool people with the Friday Arts Project in Rock Hill. There were poets, musicians, visual artists, […]
Last night I used an iTunes card I got for my birthday (thanks, Katie and Elizabeth!) to watch the first half of the documentary on the Eagles. It’s really good. […]
A couple of weeks ago, up in New York, I met the great editing guru Jay Lovinger. At dinner I told him the four questions I use in my writing […]
Elmore Leonard died. So I pulled one of his books off the shelf. Turned to a random page. This is “Riding the Rap,” page 94: Reverend Dawn was saying, “You […]
You might have seen my tweet the other day: https://twitter.com/tommytomlinson/status/367016039860551680 I don’t have a whole lot more to say about it right now, except for two things: one, it was […]