“I’m not advocating happy endings; I’m advocating well-built stories.” — Not to be too Tale of Two Cities about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult. Why is it easier? You don’t have to make stuff up, which is hard work. You don’t have to run your characters/plot/milieu/ending through a stress test that’ll…

The High School Reunion — “Listen,” the men say, balded by time, or at least fattened up a little: “We’re still young, right?” And the women — many looking kind of broken-in, while the lucky few nod or shrug at the last limits of their prime — the women say: “Yeah, we’re like 12 years…