My dear friend Rob, Would you believe that this citizen of San Francisco has never hooked a fish in his life??
It was 2018. My 82-year-old brother Bob was in a Los Angeles hospital. Liver cancer. The only thing I knew about liver cancer was that…
I was once in the presence of one of the greatest baseball players of all time. It wasn’t Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Ted Williams, Barry…
As soon as I finished reading Mitch Albom’s Tuesdays with Morrie, a book about Albom visiting his favorite college professor, Morrie Schwartz, who had Lou…
I started for the ball with my back to the plate. Davis—big, fast, powerful—was charging in from center field.
I just finished reading Natalie Goldberg’s Wild Mind, a book that’s supposed to set fire to a writer’s imagination and get the writer to start…
I recently asked an artificial intelligence tool to edit a short story of mine and thought it did a decent job. Soon after that, I…
My mother was a major influence on me. She was tough. The house was her domain, and she ran it loudly. “Charles,” she would holler…
I was once known as Nature Boy. I was in the seventh grade at Bancroft Junior High in Hollywood. One night, all the sports clubs…
I have a picture of my dad in mind. He’s wearing a white short-sleeve shirt, brown slacks held up by suspenders, a tie, and shiny…
I ran into Robert Marosi Bustamante at the George Krevsky Fine Art Gallery in San Francisco. It was opening night of the Krevsky Gallery’s annual…
Description – JOURNAL 2025: The Year I Met My Biological Daughter is one of many yearly journals written by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. In…
Description – Journal 2024: Donald Trump and My Upcoming Heart Surgery is the 21st yearly journal published by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. Among the subjects…
Donald Trump, as he has since he came down the golden escalator in 2015, takes up a large chunk of Sutton’s thoughts. Sutton shows how…
Sunday, April 14, 1985 – Am I a writer or not? I don’t know anymore. If I write every day, I’m a writer. If I…
Description – San Francisco author Joseph Sutton, who has been keeping an ongoing journal since 1970, tells the reader what was going on in the…
Thursday, March 10, 2005 – Today is the first day I’m out of the house by myself after my operation two weeks ago. I’m in…
Journal 2016 (15,000 words) is the 17th yearly journal by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. At the age of 76 in 2016, Sutton wrote down…
Description – Journal 2012: The Rationals vs. the Irrationals is the 16th yearly journal written by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. In this one year…
This is the 14th yearly journal by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton that shows him on the cusp of fatherhood as he battles with himself…
Journal 1984: Overcoming Asthma and Changing Careers is the 13th yearly journal written by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. While teaching high school English in…
Journal 2014: The Life of an Unknown Writer is the 12th yearly journal written by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. The main topics Sutton covered…
Journal 2015: History of One Man is a history of one year in San Francisco writer Joseph Sutton’s life. Religion, Sports, the Universe, the Environment,…
Journal 2001: The 9/11 Attacks is the tenth in a series of yearly journals by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. Sutton writes of that fatal…
Description Journal 1993 is the ninth in a series of yearly journals by San Francisco author Joseph Sutton. This journal shows the ups and downs…
Description San Francisco author Joseph Sutton digs deep as to why so many Americans refused to believe that Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the…
Description Journal 1990, like all of San Francisco writer Joseph Sutton’s yearly journals, is not only a short history of one year in his life…
Friday, February 11, 2000 – My Novel’s DebutThis is my first journal entry of a new century and a new millennium. What has happened since the…
Description – Where were you in 2010? What were you doing? What was going on in the country that year? San Francisco writer Joseph Sutton,…
Description – This book chronicles the life of a writer, mainly his thoughts on the writing process and self-publishing. It also gives a picture of…
Description – This book is a history of one year in a writer’s life, as well as the country’s life. It’s about what went through Joseph…
This one-year journal is the unfolding story of a writer, walker, husband, father, former teacher, and ex-college football player. It’s the story of…
Description A Beginning Writer’s Journal: 1970-1972 reveals what Joseph Sutton went through to finish the first writing project of his life, a novel about his…
Oh, it’s so nice to be writing swiftly in my journal again. It’s where I’m free to write whatever comes to mind. There’s no thinking…
“Anti-intellectualism gives rise to the most extreme, the most morally deplorable, form of sloth. It is to be found in persons for whom the ultimate…
In the Time of My Life: Selected Writings is a collection of Joseph Sutton’s best writing over a period of fifty years. This compilation of stories…
This is the third of Joseph Sutton’s books on writing. It’s not your run-of-the-mill writing book. It’s different because Sutton, a writer of almost 50 years,…
This collection of city stories covers a wide range of subjects—from homelessness, sex, and sports to school and animal stories.
What caused Bruce Gardner to put a bullet through his temple on the pitching mound at USC with his college diploma in one hand, a…
This final game of the season had a heart-stopping finish to it. With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, a man on third,…
This collection of 11 short stories deals with author Joseph Sutton’s Syrian Jewish background.
Father and Son chronicles Joseph Sutton’s relationship with his son Ray, giving a year-by-year account of his thoughts and feelings for Ray as he grew…
There are 52 short entries—one for each week of the year—that deal with everything from “How to Write and Love Doing It” to “Writing as…
When the woman Jake Massry lives with leaves him for another man because he can’t succeed as a writer, and his old world father, on…
The time is 1969. Joshua Sampson, a history teacher in a black ghetto high school in South Central Los Angeles, finds the only way to…
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Write Now! is a powerful little book about writing, getting published and selling your book. It’s about the urge to write, writing mentors, writer’s block,…
What is the writer’s method? How does a writer get strings of inspired words from his mind onto the page? Not very damn well if…
The Immortal Mouth and Other Stories is a collection of 30 short stories dealing with classic American themes—fathers and sons, hitting the open road, roller-coaster…
Grouped into 120 alphabetized categories (from “Achievement” to “Mind and Body” to “Young and Old”), this collection of more than 2,000 highly enlightening, inspiring and…