Mike Rowe

I am extremely flattered to say the least by Erik’s kind words. If anyone sees this and is curious, here’s a link to my blog homepage notesfromtheneogene.substack.com

Paranoid (free)style On Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49

In case you’re interested: Thomas Pynchon, Bill Clinton, Carl Jung, Harold Bloom, and Keanu Reeves all gathered together in this one post: notesfromtheneogene.substack.com/p/paranoid-f...

Reality is iconoclastic On C.S. Lewis's A Grief Observed

Wrote a bit on C.S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed notesfromtheneogene.substack.com/p/reality-is...

Edith Wharton and the making of American ghosts On Edith Wharton's "Afterward"

Wrote about an Edith Wharton ghost story, one of the best I’ve ever read notesfromtheneogene.substack.com/p/edith-whar...

This is a very flattering endorsement for my notes from the neogene!

Not yet yet quite present over here on Blue Sky so only today noticed they were here and wanted to thank @barrelhouse.bsky.social and especially editor Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social for publishing my story

I'm glad Erik shared this because it's absolutely hilarious. I went to dinner with @mhrowe.bsky.social the other night just so I could hear him talk about his writing. Also because I like him.

Great and Urgent Projects of Passion, by MH Rowe — Barrelhouse Claire had been trying to get her son, Colton, to stop harassing Rod Stewart online. She took away his phone and returned it after a conversation in the kitchen during which Colton's contrition, regre...

Things have changed and will change more, but I I did something I used to do, which is publish a short story. Grateful to Barrelhouse for publishing my light but world-striding story about a mom trying to get her son to stop harassing Rod Stewart online www.barrelhousemag.com/online-lit/g...

New kind of cat’s feet just dropped

Wow, it’s the dramatic final scene, when the one battery thinks the other battery is dead

whoever chews it gets their mind read (not good fyi)