Happy New Year to all my 'Basement' buddies... I have a special treat for everyone. This is a guest post from Caleb J Ross, author o...

OK. Shameless self-promotion time... My prose poem THE LAST MOMENTS OF PAPA H is now live over at Red Fez, a great online portal. The pi...

Please click play to enjoy an audio readin g BUMS CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS In the gutter, you tend to notice things normal people wouldn't d...

OK... You can't make this stuff up. Kinda sad. Oddly funny in that demented way... Here's the scoop: April Wright, of Chattanooga, T...

Please click play to enjoy an audio reading LOTTERY MAN Back when I worked at the luncheonette, I remember the guy used to come in every day...

Dunno where this pic exactly originated online, but I think it might be our kind of place. Right?

OK... So we're all busy. Most of us can't eke out enough time to write or update our blogs much less READ. Imagine that? Us writers ...

Something is seriously wrong. It just dawned on me that this is my second post about a coat in a very short time span. In any case, I wrote ...

So there I was the other day, driving, and I heard on the radio station how Elton John wrote a letter to his teenage self for some UK book. ...

Please click play to enjoy an audio reading OVER A HAMBURGER So here we were. Again. Staring at each other, this time over a hamburger durin...

Please click play to enjoy an audio reading I WEAR HIS JACKET The military jacket was crumpled in a sloppy ball on the floor of the a...

Blockbuster Video is selling books now... I know times are rough for the video retailer but selling books?? And they're not even movie t...

A team of Antarctic adventurers will soon set off on a mission to drill through Antarctic ice to find crates of whiskey that were abandoned ...

Last week, The Basement gave you the top books of the decade, courtesy of The Times Online . This week, comes a more mainstream Stateside ve...