Christopher Herz

Let me say right away that I had no idea who Cindy Sherman was before I went to MOMA to see the incredible Cindy Sherman exhibit that everyone is walking around Manhattan shaking their heads in disbelief about.

"They can't all be her!"...

After my second book, Pharmacology, came out on Dec. 6th, a few people have asked what my process was. Got me thinking about everything that not only goes into writing one of these beasts, but how crazy I drive my marketing, editorial and design teams.

So, here it...

What happens to people when they walk into the office each day? Thoughts, emotions and rational thinking are replaced by a self-preservation mode that causes whispers spurred by fear.

What is that fear? How does its base gain momentum to bloom into this creature that takes over? That feeds off...

If I were one of the writers who helped to put together President Obama's State of the Union Speech last night, I would have added the following:

For you teachers out there wondering where the money for your raises that you so dearly deserve is coming from, I am instituting...

See my little brother-in-law lives in Mongolia, so early in the mornings, we often Skype over there and talk to the extended family. He is 14 years old, starting to date, and, like most young folks in the world, is a Hip Hop fanatic.

I was wearing my thermal bottoms...

So, you need a soundtrack for your summer to fall in love to?

With the country at war, oil spilling to our shores, heat waves tipping their hands at what's on the horizon, you wouldn't expect your romance music to come neatly packaged and off the shelf, would you?

Sonic the Hedgehog gives dance lessons between readings done by a trio of mad men while recorded music and a lazer harp soundtrack the happenings. The audience all have numbers pinned to their backs in preparation for the dance contest after the show, which had a prize of a homemade...

Dear St. Nicholas Place, Sugar Hill, Harlem, USA,

Today, my love story to our block is being re-released to the world.

The concrete that covered the soil of a hundred years ago cracked open because your voices were too strong to be kept underground.

Each person, building, kiss, cry,...

Connection.

That's what this modern world of interactivity promises.

We take each spare moment to check in with our phones, seeing if there's a new message or a missed call. We might just be searching for a virtual touch of recognition that somebody out there is thinking of us....

It goes like this: Wake up at 5 A.M. Coffee. Write. Bodega across the street raises steel gate. Supers start to sweep and hose. Bricks on the building across from me get a little bit of sun. Check ball scores from the night before. Finish coffee. Write some more. The...