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Thoughts on Nothing (Or: 'Cigarettes')

The Problem with Claudine Gay

[Haruki] Murakami’s 'Dance Dance Dance'

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New York City (Manhattan) Both Is and Is Not What You Think

No Country for Old Men

Henry Miller, Redux

Addiction and Recovery

WHY I SIGNED THE PRO-FREE SPEECH LETTER ON SUBSTACK

My Paternal Grandmother

Tommy’s Roof (Preview for free subscribers; become a paid subscriber to read the whole piece)

Is It Possible to Write Without Bias?

How a Former neo-Nazi Became my Esteemed Client

Anarchy in the Water: A Recollection

Anecdotes, Tidbits, Random Notes

Is It Possible to Write Without Bias?

Punk Rock

Nabokov’s Ego (LOLITA)

Diary Entry (11/21/2023)

What [Substack] Readers Want

Consider Going Paid

F.D.R.: Creator of Modern Progressivism (minus identity essentialism)

Sobriety and Wokeism are Diametrically Opposed to Each Other

Fragments

Making a Living as a Writer and Book Editor

The Grim Room (A Suspense Novel)

Mystical Morocco

What is the Point of Substack? Money? Art? Quality? Community?

Remaking a Writing Workshop

The Denial of Death

My Covid/NYC Novel

Flaubert: Man of Artistry

I’m Getting Married Tomorrow (10/14/23)

San Diego Days

Backpacking the High Sierras

My Novels for Paid Subscribers (with opening chapters free)

Disgust and Desire: A Sobriety/Covid Novel

Entry from The Cancer Diaries #1

On Writing What Scares You

The Secret Sauce to Being a Good Writer

I Reached 1,000 Subscribers!

Fatherhood Series Essay: Nature and Character

21st Century Huck Finn

Misunderstanding Artists

Thoughts on Book Editing

TWO YEARS IN NEW YORK (Michael Mohr's Fictional NYC Covid Memoir) Chapter 18

Tribalism: An Audio Monologue

The Importance of Substack

We'd all do well to "grow a spiritual pair"

"Growing a Spiritual Pair": A Conversation

What is a Man?

Gustave Flaubert: Man of Letters

A Born Writer

A Reminder and an Update re My Novels

The Grim Room

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Rousseau: Madman Genius

Identity Politics and Race

Road Dog #2

Road Dog: Life on the Road

New Section for my NYC "fictional memoir" "Two Years in New York"

TWO YEARS IN NEW YORK (Michael Mohr's Fictional NYC Covid Memoir)

TWO YEARS IN NEW YORK (Michael Mohr's Fictional NYC Covid Memoir)

TWO YEARS IN NEW YORK (Michael Mohr's Fictional NYC Covid Memoir)

TWO YEARS IN NEW YORK (Michael Mohr's Fictional NYC Covid Memoir)

TWO YEARS IN NEW YORK (Michael Mohr's Fictional NYC Covid Memoir)

TWO YEARS IN NEW YORK (Michael Mohr's Fictional NYC Covid Memoir)

TWO YEARS IN NEW YORK (Michael Mohr's Fictional NYC Covid Memoir)

TWO YEARS IN NEW YORK (Michael Mohr's Fictional NYC Covid Memoir)

TWO YEARS IN NEW YORK (Michael Mohr's Fictional NYC Covid Memoir)

TWO YEARS IN NEW YORK (Michael Mohr's Fictional NYC Covid Memoir)

TWO YEARS IN NEW YORK (Michael Mohr's Fictional NYC Covid Memoir)

TWO YEARS IN NEW YORK (Michael Mohr's Fictional NYC Covid Memoir)

TWO YEARS IN NEW YORK (Michael Mohr's Fictional NYC Covid Memoir)

TWO YEARS IN NEW YORK (Michael Mohr's Fictional NYC Covid Memoir)

TWO YEARS IN NEW YORK (Michael Mohr's Fictional NYC Covid Memoir)

TWO YEARS IN NEW YORK (Michael Mohr's Fictional NYC Covid Memoir)

TWO YEARS IN NEW YORK (Michael Mohr's Fictional NYC Covid Memoir)

TWO YEARS IN NEW YORK (Michael Mohr's Fictional NYC Covid Memoir)

TWO YEARS IN NEW YORK (Michael Mohr's Fictional NYC Covid Memoir)

TWO YEARS IN NEW YORK (Michael Mohr's fictional memoir)

Two Years in New York (Michael Mohr's "fictional memoir" chapter 17)

Cross Country Snippets

The Case for Being Serious

Jim Beam Bummer

Gratitude for All I Have

The Golden, Mysterious Road

The Grim Room (chapter 14)

Saul Bellow

Writers Versus The World

Two Years in New York (Michael Mohr's "fictional memoir" chapter 16)

Forbidden Kings of Silver Strand

The Fish

The Grim Room (chapter 13)

Invite your friends to read Michael Mohr's Sincere American Writing

My Father and Me: Pine Mountain (A Father's Day Tale)

Work

The Edge

The Grim Room (chapter 12)

How Book Editing Works

Two Years in New York (Michael Mohr's "fictional memoir" chapter 15)

Thoughts on Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

My Father Passed

The Grim Room (chapter 11)

Covid Body

Two Years in New York (Michael Mohr's "fictional memoir" chapter 14)

Corrupt Cops in Sturgis, South Dakota

The Grim Room (chapter 10)

Why I’m Using Substack “Notes” Sparingly and May not Use it At All Going Forward

Two Years in New York (Michael Mohr's "fictional memoir" chapter 13)

The Grim Room (chapter 9)

700 Subscribers!

The Poison of Identity

The Grim Room (chapter 8)

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Wilderness

Life in the Slow Lane

Bob Dylan as a Contemporary Female Writer in New York, 2019

The Grim Room (chapter 7)

Poem for my Father #2

Bar Fight

Book Banning Happens on Both Sides

THE COLT

Rachel Kushner: Gen-X Punk Rock Author

The Grim Room (chapter 6)

Two Years in New York (Michael Mohr's "fictional memoir" chapter 12)

Music in Snatches of Time

The Grim Room (chapter 5)

Poem for my Father

Being a Free Thinker

American Freaks

The Grim Room (chapters 3 and 4)

Death

THANK YOU FOR 40 PAYING SUBSCRIBERS!!!

The Grim Room (Chapter 2)

George Orwell: A Life

"Yardo" (Fiction)

Some Surprising Data on Black Americans

Thank You Everyone for 500 Subscribers!!! (Pay for my stack for only $35/year!!!)

The Grim Room (A Novel)

LOVE

Life Mistakes

Cool Kids (Long-form autobiographical fiction)

Two Years in New York (Michael Mohr's "fictional memoir" chapter 11)

Orwell’s Awareness of The Human Condition

The Cruelty of [Racist] Childhood

Locked in a Room

Bullying

Thoughts on Henry Miller

Misunderstanding Alcoholics Anonymous

Ego and Self-Promotion on Substack: Why Writers Write

Chris Rock

Thank You Subscribers!

Why You’re Not an Expert (And I’m Not Either…)

The Perfect Christopher Hitchens Quote

Literary Agent Rejections

Consider paying for Sincere American Writing ✍️

Anecdotes, Tidbits, Random Notes

The Heart of the Emerald Green

Why You Should Edit Your Substack Posts

Manhattan Covid Panic

Age

No Country for Old Men

The New York Times Still Has Guts (NYT response to an ‘open letter.’)

INK

THE WRITER/EDITOR RELATIONSHIP: PATIENCE

GETTING YOUR BOOK TO AN AGENT (from 2016)

How to Get the Most from Your Book Editing Experience: Tales from Publishing

Two Years in New York (Michael Mohr's "fictional memoir" chapter 10, part 2)

Two Years in New York (Michael Mohr's "fictional memoir" chapter 10, Part 1)

Consider Recommending my Substack

Riding the Night

The Joy of Love

DOSTOEVSKY AND COVID-19

Youth: A Short Story

George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”

Dostoevsky: Russian Wizard

Mexico Story

Disgust and Desire, a novel (chapter 4)

Oblivion: Shooting Dope in Santa Cruz, age 22

Love in the Desert

Two Years in New York (Michael Mohr's "fictional memoir" chapter 9)