BRIAN J. N. DAVIS

Writing

All of my writing can be found over in the Archives. That includes a lot of songwriting/creative journals that may or may not be of interest to a wide audience (but if they are, then great!). Below is a streamlined collection of published and unpublished work focused on the things I love writing about most --creative process, video games, baseball, and fiction.

Baseball
The 2026 Cubs & the Rarity of Contention (Feb 2026)
On The End of Another Chicago Cubs Season (Oct 2025)
The End of the Era (Aug 2021)
The Cubs at the Bat (Nov 2016)

Video Games
The Life Lessons of Final Fantasy IV (Collider, Sept 2021)
The Lying Bastards of Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (Collider, Sept 2021)
Chocobo Racing: A Masterpiece Revisited (Collider, Aug 2021)
A Link to the Past: Stories of Growing Up Gamer (Little Plane Press; Dec 2014)

Essays on Writing & Music
I Don't Get the Lamps (Sep 2025)
Decidedly Earnest (Jul 2024)
Then Take Your Hat (Jul 2024)
You're in the Zone (Jun 2024)
The Journal (Jun 2024)
Day After Tomorrow (Mar 2024)
You're Gonna Have to Serve Somebody (Mar 2024)
A Metropolitan Guide to Identity (Mar 2022)
This City Don't Belong to You (Mar 2022)
The Little Plane (Mar 2022)

Fiction
Natural History (Aug 2023)
The Grand Revolution of Lakeside (Little Plane Press; Apr 2023)
The Windmills (May 2022)
Quite A Man (Apr 2022)
Rules (Impressions, May 2015)
Mr. Madrigal (Impressions, May 2014)

Poems
Metropolitan Guide (Impressions, May 2012)