fiction and creative non-fiction from Brennan Quenneville
For roughly a third of its 28 mile run, the I-696 expressway is cut down into the earth, its concrete walls slicing through the moraines that decorate southeastern Michigan. Driving along the highway, with those walls rising up on either side of the you, there is a strange feeling that traffic isn't driving down a [...]
A decade ago I sat in a collegiate music composition class and listened to a professor explain how, in order to write a truly great song, it was necessary to hone an idea over and over, fully exploring it and discovering the best way to implement it. Young people, he posited, struggled with this because [...]
When I was a kid, my best friend lived down the street. Ours was that kind of inseparable childhood friendship where we hung out pretty much every day, no matter what. We played with Legos and video games and on the same hockey team. We knew each other's immediate and extended families almost as well [...]
Sammy, Summer is in full swing. It's the season for barbecues and swimming pools and crazy NBA contracts. I'm guessing you were thinking of that last item when you tweeted this: https://twitter.com/sammywatkins/status/881516252233125888 I get it. NBA players that you've never even heard of are pulling down huge new contracts while players who are adequate but [...]
Look, the world feels an awful lot like it's going to shit right now. And a fair number of Baby Boomers - the people who have been running this shit show for a while now - are pretty sure that not only is the world ending but that it's all millennials' fault. No seriously, it's all millennials' fault. [...]
America is kind of a dumb place right now. We suck at akudemicks school and we keep putting people who seem to be terrible at their jobs in charge of our most cherished institutions. Oh and we elected Donald covfefing Trump as our President too. Not a great run. America likes to see itself as a [...]
This much is already known: for every sensible line of straightforward statement, there are leagues of senseless cacophonies, verbal jumbles and incoherences. - Jorge Luis Borges, “The Library of Babel” In one of his most famous stories, Argentine metaphysical author Jorge Luis Borges positions his narrator in the fictitious and eponymous Library of Babel, wherein [...]
Under the best of circumstances it would have been hard to be excited about the fantasy prospects of the New York Jets this year. We are not operating under the best of circumstances. With the news that the Jets are planning to trade or release Eric Decker, the Jets have clearly committed to tanking not [...]
Adrian, Marshawn & Jamaal, Before I get ahead of myself, I want to give you guys some much deserved love. Adrian, you had the best combination of size and speed that I've ever seen at running back. In 2012, you managed to run for 2,097 yards even though running backs were becoming increasingly irrelevant and [...]
Dear Everyone in Bill Belichick's Fantasy Football League, First off, yes. I understand that you're going to pretend that you don't exist. That Bill Belichick - perhaps the greatest coach in NFL history - couldn't possibly have the time or lack of self worth to play fantasy football. I get that you're going to say [...]
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