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The Creative Accomplice

Brian Gresko

Letters about the creative life and process informed by decades of writing, reading, drawing, journalism, teaching, running Writing Co-Lab, curating Pete’s Reading Series, parenting, and being an active member of NYC’s literary community.

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On Time, Art, and Questions

Yesterday, I caught an old clip of an Orson Welles interview. In this interview, which appeared to be from the seventies, he’s asked: is there a line in one of your movies, or any movie or play that you’ve ever seen, which sums up what you’...

22 days ago
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Profiling An Author Is an Art of Attention

T Kira Madden on the March/April 2026 cover of Poets & Writers Magazine

I arranged to meet T Kira Madden at the same cafe where I had interviewed Garth Greenwell for Poets & Writers Magazine a few years before, without taking one thing int...

6 months ago
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Why Cooperate?

illustration by Brian Gresko

Growing up in the Philly ‘burbs as I did, I never encountered the word cooperative, or socialism, but I did know about the loaves and fishes. That story came up regularly in Catholic school, how all these peopl...

6 months ago
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Chaotic Neutral: Against Labels, Genres, Categories

curiouser and curiouser; illustration of the mad tea party by John Tenniel

I was having drinks with a writer the other day – an older guy, who identifies as gay – and he said, “You’re queer, aren’t you?”

Yes, I replied. My kinship with th...

6 months ago
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I Was Almost Scammed!

What a world! What a world! Illustration by Brian Gresko

I’ve heard from a bunch of writers recently about various scams – being asked to pay so that a book club would read their work, for instance – and I’ve gotten shady DMs on social med...

7 months ago
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