(This is a short excerpt from my forthcoming novel, That’s Me in the Corner, spoken in the voice of the book’s protagonist, Brody Graham.) *** Christopher was a full-on cokehead junkie, but he got clean and became this puritan who’s always irritating the hell out of everyone, saying things like, “I’m not going to tell you […]
Category: Jason
On Personal Protest
I remember during the earliest days of the Occupy movement that the media got a kick out of asking the protesters what it was, exactly, that they wanted: “What is your list of specific demands?” And when the pierced and inked twenty-somethings couldn’t answer with succinctness and precision, they were smirked at and condescendingly patted […]