I have a deep love for the North Shore in my home state of Minnesota. It is a landscape in which one can witness true sublimity in nature — my father and I stood on the Palisade Head lookout in a frightening sleet storm only a couple of weeks ago…

On our way to a private viewing of Alain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad, my friend and I got to talking about writing as craft. Naturally, I brought up the various challenges and solutions I’ve come across while working on my National Novel Writing Month project (ending week three, by…

I took this picture at a friend’s cabin property in central Minnesota. The crumbling structure in the foreground is a shack with an old, boarded-up cabin in the background. Debris litters the forest floor surrounding this particular spot, with rusted scrap metal, abandoned cars, and a curious circle of old…

This past weekend, while out for drinks with several of my closest friends, I made the spontaneous decision to participate in National Novel Writing Month. I have always had the desire to write a novel, and often find myself daydreaming about becoming the next great American writer; however, I’ve never…