Nicholas Gustavson

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  • October Updates

    So I finally joined Pinterest.  You can check out all my amazing pins here: https://www.pinterest.com/nickgustavson/ Hard at work on some new projects with deadlines.  Trimming stories to get under word count feels like tossing Titanic passengers out of a lifeboat. My lovelies! I hate watching you sink. I typed you into life and then I…

  • I Didn’t Make the Paper for Sports

    I never made the local papers for high school sports. I played Frosh Soph football but I didn’t try out for varsity and I didn’t really care. Strange that years later I would replay some of my actions on the field, wondering what would have happened had I tackled that speedy tailback — the one…

  • Find me on Twitter @nicktgustavson

    So I finally joined twitter.  You can find me on twitter at @nicktgustavson I wonder if this medium will survive the trouble under the hood with a CEO departure and the problems with morale.  Twitter certainly isn’t moribund. Perhaps by creating my account, I will turn the tide and swell the ranks of new users.…

  • What I learned from Googling myself

    So, I googled myself today.  Come on, you’ve done it. Call it narcissism, vanity, or just plain curiosity.  It’s certainly okay to do this. We live in a world where employers google you before your job interview, so you better fire up your browser and check yourself out.  What do you find? Unfortunately for me,…

  • Il Palio

    Daily Mail has an article with some great pictures from this year’s Il Palio, the famous 400-year old horse race that occurs every summer in Siena, Italy. I was there in July 2001 and I remember waiting all day in the Piazza del Campo for the race to start. I sweated like a pig under the relentless Italian sun. We…

  • Nicholas Gustavson’s short story ‘Tasting Class’ wins Easy Readers 45th Anniversary Writing Contest

      I’m proud to announce that my short story “Tasting Class” won the Grand Prize in the Easy Reader News 45th Anniversary Writing Contest.  It’s a story about wine tasting and murder in the South Bay (Santa Monica Bay, that is) I found the wealthy Los Angeles beach community  to be an awesome setting for…

  • Roxane Gay RE: Bill Cosby and Jon Krakauer

    Insightful post by Roxane Gay regarding the Bill Cosby train wreck and the journey she took, from adoration to abhorrence.  It’s certainly an end to an innocence for us all, the lovable Cosby world, his ugly sweater takes on new meaning, once the garb of a doting father, now the sackcloth of a rapist.