Until the End of the World
Writing is not what I live for, it’s how I live
Michael Ventura
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Arts, Nov. 24, 2021
This Job Will Change Your Life
Former staff reflect on the zigs and zags of life post-Chronicle
Features, Sept. 2, 2021
Here We Go Yet Again
Michael Ventura revisits his "Letters at 3am" Columbine column
Chronolog, Feb. 16, 2018
“The Guilt of Frank Sinatra”
As ASO toasts Sinatra in concert, we revisit a Michael Ventura classic
Arts, Dec. 29, 2015
Letters at 3AM: As Time Goes By
"I'm not quitting. I'm turning," says Michael Ventura in his final column
Columns, Nov. 13, 2014
Letters at 3am: The World
That Calls Itself "the World"
We're capable of so much – and look what we've settled for
Columns, Oct. 30, 2014
Letters at 3am: The Future Dot-Dot-Dot
Ellipses express exactly my sense of the future
Columns, Oct. 16, 2014
Letters at 3AM: A Long Goodbye
In the first of four parting columns, Michael Ventura announces his decision to end his biweekly column
Columns, Oct. 2, 2014
Letters at 3am: Joe Ely's Reverb: An Odyssey
The road goes on forever, and there's never a destination
Columns, Sept. 18, 2014
Letters At 3AM: Karen Holden's This Music
This Music, Karen Holden's new poetry collection, expresses the connection between the self and the world
Columns, Sept. 4, 2014
Letters at 3AM: Connectivity/Vulnerability: Part 2
The boundaries of everything are wavering and disappearing
Columns, Aug. 21, 2014
Letters at 3AM: Vulnerability/Connectivity, Part 1
As a species, we have a desire to connect electronically, but not ideologically
Columns, Aug. 7, 2014
Letters at 3AM: So Big Deal, Hemingway
Will Huck Finn be a valuable and immortal American archetype in the future?
Columns, July 24, 2014
About James BigBoy Medlin
BigBoy Medlin's dark comic novel of West Texas: an excerpt
Arts, July 17, 2014
Letters at 3AM: That Word 'Oligarchy'
Oligarchy is upon us, claw and beak, and has been for some time
Columns, July 10, 2014
Letters at 3am: Oligarchy Blues
Without fair elections and a viable legislative process at federal and state levels, the republic no longer exists
Columns, June 26, 2014
Letters at 3AM: Snyder 'R' Us
Despite the illusion of autonomy, we have been colonized by the Oligarchy
Columns, June 12, 2014
Letters at 3AM: Hitting the Street
Michael Ventura remembers how poverty bred contempt toward those he loved the most
Columns, May 29, 2014
Letters at 3AM: The Nameless Moon, Etc.
Ventura unpacks his folders full of sentences without homes, and other remnants excised from this and that
Columns, May 15, 2014
Letters at 3AM: Musicians of Behavior
Actors are musicians of behavior
Columns, May 1, 2014
Letters at 3AM: The Sadness That Stays
When the world inside you is no longer the world around you, that's called aging
Columns, April 17, 2014
Letters at 3AM: To Sit on a Park Bench
The park bench is a fine and honorable place to end up
Columns, April 3, 2014
Letters at 3AM – Manifesto: A Radical Aesthetics
Get stuff out there; work with cause: That's the genesis of LettersAt3amPress
Columns, March 20, 2014
Letters at 3AM: BigBoy's 'Slap Noir'
James BigBoy Medlin's 'Slap Noir' changed my life in a most concrete fashion
Columns, March 6, 2014
How to Write a Book
If you think you have a book in you, it's important to find out if you really do
Columns, Feb. 20, 2014
Letters at 3AM: Today, 100 Years Ago
On Feb. 7, 1914, the world first beheld Charlie Chaplin on the screen in his iconic getup
Columns, Feb. 6, 2014
Letters at 3AM: February 1914
Charlie Chaplin's iconic Tramp was really born in 'Kid Auto Races at Venice,' not 'Mabel's Strange Predicament,' as commonly thought
Columns, Jan. 23, 2014
Letters at 3AM: 3% Neanderthal
Our DNA has seen it all before – and survived
Columns, Jan. 9, 2014
Letters at 3AM: The Capacity to Take It
Perseverance is the spine of the human condition
Columns, Dec. 27, 2013
Letters at 3AM: If We Make It Through December
Everywhere I looked for a merry Christmas, I found contradictions too disturbing to ignore and paradoxes too entrenched to resolve
