Tommy Tomlinson

Goodbye, 600

They threw a big party at the Charlotte Observer on Thursday. You could also get by with calling it a wake. The reason for the party was that the newspaper is

Stuff I’ve been reading (nicked from Nick)

January 2009 Books read: Atonement — Ian McEwan How Fiction Works — James Wood Taming a Sea-Horse — Robert B. Parker Bloody Confused! — Chuck Culpepper Shakespeare Wrote for Money

A good old car

My goal was to drive to the moon. Sometime in the last year or two, as our 1999 Camry crossed 200,000 miles, I looked up how far it was. The

New story in Esquire

For journalists, a story in Esquire magazine has always been like making it to The Show. The stories they’ve published over the years have become part of the American conversation.

The guru

This piece won’t be as good as it would have been if Jay Lovinger were around to edit it. Here’s how he worked, at least with me: He would read

New story: Vince Dooley’s second act

Here’s my new story for the great magazine Garden & Gun on Vince Dooley, the former football coach at the University of Georgia, who has found a new obsession late

100 words on… the Daytona crash

I’m reading David Carr’s junkie memoir “The Night of the Gun.” He talks about the carefully acquired skill of shooting up cocaine — how the goal is to get as

Long-distance dedication

I’m coming late to the party on the news that Casey Kasem is retiring from “American Top 40.” To tell the truth, I wasn’t sure he was still alive, although

The forgetting machine

There were maybe a dozen people in the stands when we got to the arena for the Harvard-Brown basketball game Saturday night. Ivy League ball is not exactly UNC-Duke. By

Apologies

To the five or six people in the world who have this blog on an RSS feed: You probably saw a couple of weird posts today. There was a multimedia

Inertia and the Seinfeld chain

I gave a book talk Wednesday afternoon to a great group of folks at Amity Presbyterian Church here in Charlotte. During the Q&A, a woman talked about how she’d tried

A Prince story

I went looking for the ticket stub today but couldn’t find it. I’ve kept the stubs from almost every concert and ballgame I’ve ever been to, but somehow this one

Short Stories

Short Stories

Goodbye, 600

Stuff I’ve been reading (nicked from Nick)

A good old car

New story in Esquire

The guru

New story: Vince Dooley’s second act

100 words on… the Daytona crash

Long-distance dedication

The forgetting machine

Apologies

Inertia and the Seinfeld chain

A Prince story