TV: Tokyo Vice, Ray Donovan, Accused, SEE, Godzilla BOOkS: Speed Tribes, China Syndrome, Boy Alone, Triburbia PRIZES: Pushcart, Best Am Short Stories, O Henry
May 11, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Writers life; I was brought in on a troubled TV show (fired Showrunner) as consulting producer. Didn't do very much, good or bad. Then more internal troubles, not to do w/ me, & I was fired after 8 days. I'll be paid out my deal, which means something like $7000/day. Way I 1/5
Look at it, this makes up for those many stories I wrote for The Nation for like $500 each back when I was young journalist or the many short stories I published in lit journals for no money or $200 bucks. Maybe it all adds up as a writer, you're either earning 2/5
Nov 27, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Went from Asahi Evening News to Tokyo Journal to The Nation to Time to Sports Illustrated to Conde Nast to Bloomberg. Edited Time Asia. Launched magazines in China. Wrote for The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Harper’s, The NY Times, GQ, Vogue, Wired, WSJ, The New Yorker 1/
Covered Japan, SE Asia, China. Business. Sports. Politics. Celeb profiles. Pubbed non-fiction books, novels, ghosted celebrity auto-bios. Became a TV writer, now on 6th show, 8th season. I can rise to the middle of anything. A hired gun hitting deadlines w/ professional work 2/
