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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Garden & Gun is not a magazine for people with split personalities. It’s named after a legendary bar in Charleston, S.C., and published down there (in Charleston, not in the […]
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 […]