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Writing Advice I Learned At My Artists Residency
6 bits of wisdom gleaned from the depths of this memoir project.

June 2024

7 Things I Wish I'd Been Taught about the P-Word
It's a puzzle and the science behind its consumption is complex, so why can't we frame it as such?
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May 2024

S03E03: 'David Madden's Day Off'
I didn’t enjoy people anymore, and I didn’t like much else. Where had I gone? A day off was one way I might answer that question.
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Our Campus Encampment
Reports from 'the front lines', plus music endorsements at this, the end of the world's longest semester.
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What's Another Word for Doing It?
And what does it mean that we have more words for sex than gender?

April 2024

How to Find Your Purpose in Life
This one's about God and churches and Keith Haring and poetry and everything bagel seasoning.
Fifty Issues, Fifty Years Ago
What does it mean, what does it all add up to? Here's a commemorative issue toward some kind of answer, with a memoir about 1974.
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March 2024

Forms of Insecurity, 2024
The insecurity is mine, and lately it's in overdrive.
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Are You a Story Chauvinist?
Plus: synth music & queer revisionist history to fight our growing conservatism.

February 2024

My Turn at Mayo Clinic
Plus: Moby Dick as nonfiction and The Point asks, What are men for?
If You're a Sex Addict, Don't Read This One
...or just skip to the part about Zelda, which is the real addiction.
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January 2024

When You're Out of Leaders
When you get to the front, turn around, acknowledge who’s behind you, and say this.
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