Tommy Tomlinson

I want you back

Did a little Michael Jackson post over on the other blog… for a bonus, here’s my second-favorite MJ song: “Thriller” was the album that put him over the top. But

Poetry man

This is Harvard: Today I stood in line to get tickets to a poetry reading. The guy in front of me had driven an hour from the suburbs. By the

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

The art of paying attention

(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

Tutu

Photo by Alicia Anstead This is why we’re luckier than a sack of shamrocks to be on this fellowship. This photo was taken a few hours ago at the Copley

Ideas: overrated. Execution: underrated.

From Hugo Lindgren in the NYT: Ideas, in a sense, are overrated. Of course, you need good ones, but at this point in our supersaturated culture, precious few are so

Stand by me

Amazing, the things you find when you comb through old e-mails… my friend Marc sent this out about a week ago but I just looked this morning. If there were

Story shapes (and exercise tips?) from Kurt Vonnegut

My Twitter friend Baxter Holmes sent me this Kurt Vonnegut video the other day. He said my post on everything you need to know about storytelling in 5 minutes reminded

Let go.

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

On the other blog…

There’s a new post about missing MTV. I’m still trying to figure out which stuff I write belongs over there (a work blog) and which stuff belongs over here (a

Bill Murray, Baseball, Fireworks, Life

If you enjoy any of the things in the headline, you should watch this — Bill Murray’s speech on being inducted into the South Atlantic League (known down South as

tommytomlinson.com, reborn

I’ve reworked and updated my personal website — it’s not all the way rebuilt yet, but I figured I’d go ahead and fling it on out there. I’ll add more

Short Stories

Short Stories

I want you back

Poetry man

Inertia and the Seinfeld chain

The art of paying attention

Tutu

Ideas: overrated. Execution: underrated.

Stand by me

Story shapes (and exercise tips?) from Kurt Vonnegut

Let go.

On the other blog…

Bill Murray, Baseball, Fireworks, Life

tommytomlinson.com, reborn