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What Does It Feel Like to Be a Man?

Reflecting Back on 2.2 Years Writing on Substack

My NYC/COVID Memoir, FREE EBOOK! Sample Pages...

My New Book is Out, a “Fictional Memoir” about NYC during Covid!! ($3.99 eBook/Kindle!)

Democrats Did This to Themselves

The Process of Writing a First Draft

Random Thoughts, 10-27-2024

Politics: Trump and Harris: Nine Days Left

Writing Diary #1

Art Versus Commerce on Substack

More Thoughts on Vladimir Nabokov (Part I)

The Caterpillar ("fictional memoir")

HEAT (A Novel, Chapter 1)

Portland #2

George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”

Dog Walking

Home: A Place or a Feeling?

Portland: Land of Calamity or Promise?

On Charles Bukowski

A Fatal Whiff of Youth (fiction)

Monster (fiction)

Diary Entry, 8-26-24

An Adventure in Spirit and Road: Canada and Alaska, Part 4: A Coda

An Adventure in Spirit and Road: Canada and Alaska, Part 3:

An Adventure in Spirit and Road: Canada and Alaska, Part 2

An Adventure in Spirit and Road: Canada and Alaska, Part 1

Jail (fictional memoir)

Diary Entry from December 17, 2021

The Case for Jack Kerouac

Random Thoughts

In Defense of J.D. Vance’s “Hillbilly Elegy”

Paid Subscriber Q & A Response

The Power of Writing

Q & A for Paid Subs #2

Thoughts on the State of the Nation

Tightrope: My First Published Short Story (2012)

Memories

Common Misconceptions about Writing

Q & A for Paid Subs

Segment of a New Novel (paid subs only; free preview for everyone else)

Trust (Part of a Series)

Honoring My High School English Lit Teacher

Hypocritical Self-Awareness

Near Death (A Prose Poem)

RIP, Dad: Essays on My Father

American Idiocracy

Sensitivity: Good or Bad

The Boredom of Contemporary Politics

Selling A Home (Saying Goodbye)

A Lost Cat

Literary Connections

The Brawl

Support a Writer and Go Paid

The Crew is on Audible!

Baseball is Life

Video-Recorded Conversation Between Me and James F. Richardson, PhD, on The Merits or Lack Thereof of "Individualism"

Where is Lompoc? (Mailer Part II)

New Poll: What Topics Draw You In Most?

Which Book Cover Should I Use? (Poll)

Norman Mailer: Wisdom Told in Quotes

The Reason I Write (God, Freedom, Change, Acceptance)

The Crew Book Trailer

Adventures in [Woke] Bookstores

Navigating the River of Identity: A Midwestern Coming-of-Age Journey *(A Guest Post by Matthew Long)

A Trip to the Bay Area

Norman Mailer and His Intractable Ego (PART 1)

Misunderstanding Alcoholics Anonymous

Hell’s Angels, Revisited (Hunter S. Thompson’s 1967 Classic, Part 2)

Writing and Literature: A Mother and Son Tradition

Guest Post: The Promise of No Promise (Lux ATL, aka Dr. Lindsay Byron), on "Hookergate"

A Brief, Candid Note on Death

SOLID REVIEW OF 'THE CREW' BY CHICK LIT BOOK CAFE

The Curse and Necessity of Money

Calm Before an Earthquake, a novel by Felix Purat

No Country for Old Men

Hell’s Angels, Hunter S. Thompson

The Heart of the Emerald Green

Youth: A Short Story

Karl Marx Revisited: Jonathan Sperber’s Book on the Famous Thinker

Epic Book Review of My YA Novel, "The Crew"

THE HARLEM DIARIES #2: APRIL 17, 2020

Dad Dead 9 Months

Jonathan Sperber’s Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life

Marilyn Monroe: Dead by Suicide? Accident? Or the Kennedys…

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

Joanna (fiction)

Ch. 1 of my literary YA novel...

Thailand #3

Thailand #2

Ways to Suppprt Me and My Writing

Thailand: Land of Enchantment

Buy My Book on Amazon (ebook $2.99; paperback $12.99!) Find on GOODREADS!

The Harlem Diaries (May 4, 2020)

The Curse of Binaries

Adolf Hitler

Do or Die

Get me to 2,000 subscribers!

How a Former neo-Nazi Became my Esteemed Client

Small Update for Readers of Sincere American Writing! (S.A.W.) [PLEASE RE-STACK!]

Radical Responsibility

The Bend

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

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

The Secret Sauce to Being a Good Writer

Saul Bellow

Literary Agent Rejections

The Poison of Identity

Oblivion: Shooting Dope in Santa Cruz, age 22

Some Surprising Data on Black Americans

Why You Should Edit Your Substack Posts

SHAME

The Denial of Death

A Response to A Substack Writer Who Shall Remain Unnamed

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

Writers Versus The World

"Yardo" (Fiction)

Misunderstanding Alcoholics Anonymous

Sobriety and Wokeism are Diametrically Opposed to Each Other

Addiction and Recovery

Gustave Flaubert: Man of Letters

No Country for Old Men

Henry Miller, Redux

Nabokov’s Ego (LOLITA)

A Review of the Memoir “Educated”

[Haruki] Murakami’s 'Dance Dance Dance'

GETTING YOUR BOOK TO AN AGENT (from 2016)

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

Making a Living as a Writer and Book Editor

How Book Editing Works

Thoughts on Book Editing

Is It Possible to Write Without Bias?

The Edge

THE COLT

21st Century Huck Finn

Thoughts on Nothing (Or: 'Cigarettes')

Novel Segment (RUNNING SOLO II: THE JAMES WAGNER TRILOGY)

The Rose

A Born Writer

Punk Rock

My Paternal Grandmother

Facing the Blank Page

Dostoevsky: Russian Wizard

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

Diary Entry (11/21/2023)

WHY I SIGNED THE PRO-FREE SPEECH LETTER ON SUBSTACK

The Problem with Claudine Gay

What to Write and What Not To

Thank You Readers: I'm a Substack 'Bestseller'

Why I Deleted the Substack App

Dostoevsky: Russian Wizard

Facing the Blank Page

The Rose

Novel Segment (RUNNING SOLO II: THE JAMES WAGNER TRILOGY)