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A stab at fiction with a dash of auto “I Go Through People” medium.com/@markcoleman...
“I Go Through People”
A Very Short Story
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December 31, 2024 at 4:13 PM
December 20, 2023 at 2:57 AM
She warned me upfront. “I go through people,” said Jillian.
My comeback should’ve been: “I obsess on people.” Instead I nodded.
A very short story

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“I Go Through People”
A Very Short Story
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November 14, 2024 at 9:06 PM
January 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Love him, hate him, or more likely have no idea who he is, hear me out about one-of-a-kind writer Richard Meltzer. If he didn’t invent the post-grammatical mode of discourse utilized on the internet, then he prefigured it to an uncanny degree.
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R Meltzer (Re) Considered
If Richard Meltzer didn’t invent the post-grammatical mode of discourse utilized on the internet, then he prefigured it to a degree that’s…
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October 22, 2024 at 9:00 PM
RIP Cookie Mueller 3/2/1949 - 11/10/1989 A singular talent, her autobiographical short stories are buried treasures that deserve to be unearthed
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Book Review: Paging Dr. Mueller
Walking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black: Collected Stories by Cookie Mueller
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November 10, 2024 at 7:12 PM
People who didn’t live in New York perceived the city as a fantastically dangerous place in 1981. Many Americans assumed Manhattan and the surrounding boroughs were a wide-open bazaar for muggers, junkies, gangsters, conmen, pimps, whores and hustlers. medium.com/@markcoleman...
Onboarding NYC: 1981
A New Introduction To An Old Story
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October 3, 2024 at 8:09 PM
still the best - most original - novel I’ve read this year medium.com/@markcoleman...
Book Review: Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
Beginning with Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood and continuing with so-called New Journalism during the late Sixties, people tossed around the…
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September 14, 2024 at 4:30 PM
More of a collage than a book review, I wanted to pay tribute to Brad Gooch’s deft and sensitive rendering of Keith Haring’s comet streak across the sky life medium.com/@markcoleman...
Book Review: Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring by Brad Gooch
Leaving my office job one evening in early 1982, I descended the stairway into the Lexington Avenue E train station and spotted a young man furiously chalking up the blank black surface that…
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December 31, 2024 at 4:10 PM
March 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
This week in my history: moving to NYC was a walk on the wild side and a dive into the deep end medium.com/@markcoleman...
Entry Level NYC 1981
Retracing my first steps and recalling a few stumbles
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February 19, 2025 at 6:06 PM