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Malcolm McCollum

Malcolm McCollum served in the US Army from 1964-1966. After that he taught English literature and composition, humanities and music history for 35 years at Colorado colleges and universities. During those years he also worked as a journalist, musician, bartender and criminal defense investigator. He has published Dmitri's Agenda, The Guards (poetry), My Checkered Career and The Aim Was Song (memoirs). He can be reached at zerblonski@comcast.net.

These Are Not Maggots: A Self-Help Manual for the Tenuously Still-Employed

Malcolm McCollum, Nonfiction, Writings / By

In Sergei Eisenstein’s film Battleship Potemkin, that ship’s crew finally rebels over its working conditions, in particular over the food they’re given. They haul a side of beef, writhing with maggots, before the ship’s doctor: “Dr. Smirnov’s eye peering through the doubled pince-nez fills the screen. (Cut to . . . ) “White maggots swarm […]

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Notes From a Sea Diary: Nelson Algren All the Way

Analysis, Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Malcolm McCollum / By

Praised by such different souls as Ernest Hemingway, Donald Barthelme, Simone de Beauvoir and Kurt Vonnegut, Nelson Algren remains at best a rumor in his own time. They misspelled his name on his tombstone, and when the City of Chicago renamed a street in his honor, the residents complained so bitterly about the change that

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