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Dispatches and Marginalia from Michael DeVault

Or: How backing into my parking space, making my bed every morning, and a Sunday frittata saved my life. Writing is a strange vocation

I don’t remember when I first discovered Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14.”Death and the Maiden” was Schubert’s testament to the process of dying. He

Or: A workaholic’s guide to avoiding going to meetings For Dee Wallace* I have a working theory: Workaholics Anonymous doesn’t exist because you

Or: After 10 years, “Untitled” has a name I don’t remember how long it was after 9/11 that I first I saw Richard

The first time I spoke to Richard Hatch, he was moderating a press junket at the Hilton Americas hotel in Houston as one of

I was seven years old the first time I saw a movie without adult supervision. Lee Inabnet dropped her son, Byron, and me off at the

Or: On the joys of having four distinct seasons Growing up in Louisiana, I never experienced the slow march of the seasons. In

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been accused of being a Clintonista leftist and a Trump-loving hatemonger, of being a sexist and a

Or: How I learned to stop looking to live with reusable project pieces For a time, my daughter issued an edict: I could no longer say

Or: Fetish and the Art of Writing I remember reading, where I don’t know, that Hemingway used pencils to write in his notebooks. It must