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Question: Who are some of the people you’re currently thinking of when it comes to thinking about things at the level of the sentence … and, why…

Sep 25 •

The number of rabbits that emerge in the night in Providence, Rhode Island hints at the existence of a magic trick that exists somewhere at the…

Sep 19 •

A Willie Nelson song and a car slipping into the approaching dusk like someone straightening their tie. Half-jokingly describing the surrounding…

Sep 17 •

August 2023

Pop-Up Pizza and A Few Other Connections

My downstairs neighbors recently created a pop-up kitchen. They sold pizza out their own kitchen window — had hand-drawn menus, a healthy heaping of…

Aug 31 •

Infinite Taverns (A Note on Craft)

On June 22nd, 1835, Nathaniel Hawthorne — future author of The Scarlet Letter — wrote the following in his American Notebooks: Crossing the ferry into…

Aug 10 •

July 2023

Links Elsewhere:

“Annie Ernaux Has Broken Every Taboo of What Women Are Allowed to Write.” Keith Jarrett & Chick Corea Play Mozart with The New Japan Philharmonic. Movie…

Jul 1 •

May 2023

The State of the Evans

The following is an edited transcript of a conversation between two people named Evan and one person who was granted the honorific for practical…

May 18 •

April 2023

A Chat with Chloe Alberta.

Chloe Alberta is good at this. In fact, wait, no, let me put it another way: she’s very good at this. Over the past few months, she’s had work published…

Apr 27 •

10 Links Elsewhere:

“Searching for Lost Time in the World’s Most Beautiful Calendar.” “The Internet Court of Lies.” “The Herbie Hancock Group on Danish TV, 1976.” Birdcast…

Apr 25 •

Notes Towards A Future Detective Story Without The Police

We are in a room with a giant, hanging chandelier flower of glass looking — in person — like it could well kiss the top of the table. It is April…

Apr 16 •

March 2023

A Few Thoughts on Time From Which Not Enough Has Been Removed

Screaming Females has been doing this for nearly twenty years. You don’t need me to tell you about Screaming Females, not only because you might already…

Mar 30 •

20 Links Elsewhere:

This is a wonderful conversation between Marc Maron and Laurie Anderson. “Want to sequester carbon? Save wild animals.” (Related?) “While flipping…

Mar 28 •

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