Malcolm Teller

Wanna Write Seriously? Be Prepared to Work Hard

So, first blog post in a long time, and on Medium! So, here we go.

Writing seriously — and professionally (as I’ve sold stories) — has taught me something very, very clearly. This is, if you want to write, you have to be…

This is where I blog now

So, for a number of reasons, I’ve found it useful to stop blogging at Wordpress, and start blogging here on Medium.

Medium is a much neater (neat as in cool) online writing platform, I find, but more importantly, if I blog here, all of my non-fiction writing…

Some thoughts I had on Chicago PD, American cop shows, and the damaging narratives they perpetuate

I went on a Twitter exposition on one of my favorite shows, Chicago PD, and how I think it and other cop shows contribute to, and are the result of, incredibly…

Should Libraries Be Neutral? An Examination of Library Neutrality in the Age of Black Lives Matter

So I was doing some stuff on my laptop, and I ended up caught up in an intriguing discussion on the ALA Think Tank Facebook group (it’s basically a FB hangout…

A Word on Dallas, Black Lives Matter, and the Dead

[I initially wrote and posted this as a post on my personal Facebook page as a way for me to comment on the awful occurrences in Dallas tonight in the context of the horrific deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile. I figured later on…