Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can'….

Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and eve….

Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories..

Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation bo….

People, it turns out, aren't a product of their own time. They're a product of the time before theirs.

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer..

Here is a fact: nothing in all civilization has been as productive as ludicrous ambition. Whatever its ills, nothing has created more. Cathedrals, so….

During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and….

We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories.

A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article a….

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior..

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work..

You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in b….

Anything that's worth anything is complicated..