John Wiswell on the Web

It's almost March 2019, so of course we're all talking about the best movies of 2018. Naturally I'll disagree with some of the ...

Nothing expresses how Three-Stooges-goofy I find ranking art than my own attempts to do so. After Twitter friends said they wanted to read a...

This wasn't my best week. Starting Monday and hitting hard Tuesday, my body started rejecting my new medication. I've only gotten so...

The author finds the perfect song. The search is laborious, infinite, and instantly forgotten in a melody inspirational and nonintrusiv...

It's March 2014, so of course we're all talking about the best movies of 2013. If all the griping on Twitter is any indication, I...

This summer Samantha Geary is running a big writing experiment. She's organized and hosted 26 writers to assemble a short story, e...

People have died for as long as imagination has existed. Death is a franchise that services every religion and spirituality, but it...

"My partner and I began our careers with a plan destined for failure. We would hire the worst playwright, to write about the most ...

It's almost March 2013, so of course we're all talking about the best movies of 2012. If all the complaining on Twitter is any ...

They were half a generation beyond the end of oceans. Half a generation since the elders had seen one, and half a generation since the ...

In 2010 I saw a great movie that went totally under most people’s radars. Even I barely watched it, but caught the trailer and was intr...

You may have noticed the weird story I posted yesterday. It was surreal even for my tastes, and came about when a certain track came up whil...

This is a follow-up to Music for Writing . Because it's easier on me minute-to-minute than composition, editing my work often takes mo...

Music is the one art-form I’ve resisted learning much about. It’s part of a long-term personal study to test if ignorance really is bliss, b...