My mom loved “Do not go gentle into that good night”, and I have thought about that poem quite a bit since she died. Last week I stood in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey and explained who Dylan Thomas was to my son. When Taylor Swift released ttpd a few days later, I heard the title track and almost couldn’t believe the serendipity.

Sociopath: A Memoir

Sociopath: A Memoir

A collection of publicity, essays, and reviews

For some reason reading this scathing review of To Have and Have Not, my favorite Hemingway novel, really made my day. You will never please everybody, and that’s okay.

Like so many psychological conditions, sociopathy exists on a severity spectrum.
Patric Gagne, Time magazine

The 5-Minute Baguette

The 5-Minute Baguette

In which he discovers a simple recipe for making delicious bread

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.